26° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
BRITISH RENAISSANCE

STREET OF CROCODILES

STREET OF CROCODILES

Country: UK
Year: 1986
Duration: 21'


Dolls, marionettes, mannequins,
silhouettes made of paper, scissors with
jaws like those of crocodiles: they become
animated, they look, they chase one
another in a magic and gothic universe
of the Quay brothers, Stephen and
Timothy, exceptional animators looking
at the world of Buñuel and Svankmajer

Biography

film director

Stephen Quay

Stephen and Timothy Quay (Norristown, PA, USA, 1947), twin brothers, studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, then later moved to London, where he attended the Royal College of Art. In 1980 the formed Koninck with colleague Keith Griffiths and during a thirty-year career thay have produced a hybrid variety of puppets animation film work. Their work also includes decors for opera and theatre productions.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/essential filmography

 

Nocturna Artificialia (cm, anim., 1979), Punch & Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (coregia/codirectors Keith Griffiths, Larry Sider, mm, anim., 1980), The Eternal Day of Michel De Ghelderode (coregia/codirector Keith Griffiths, cm, anim., 1981), Ein Brudermord (cm, anim., 1981), Stravinsky: The Paris Years (cm, anim., 1983), The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (coregia/codirector Keith Griffiths, cm, anim., 1984), This Unnameable Little Broom (coregia/codirector Keith Griffiths, cm, anim., 1985), Street of Crocodiles (cm, anim., 1985), Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (cm, anim., 1988), The Comb (cm, anim., 1990), De Artificiali Perspectiva (cm, anim., 1991), Tales from the Vienna Woods (cm, anim., 1992), Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995), The Sandman (cm, TV, 2000), In Absentia (cm, anim., 2000), The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005), Inwentorium ?ladów (cm, anim., 2009), Maska (cm, anim., 2010).

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura, scenografia, montaggio/directors, screenplay, production design, film editing Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
soggetto/story dall’omonimo racconto di/ from the short story of the same title by Bruno Schulz
fotografia/cinematography Timothy Collinson, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
costumi/costume design Lys Flowerday
musica/music Leszek Jankowski
suono/sound Larry Sider
interprete/cast Felix Stawinski
produttore/producer Keith Griffiths
produzione/production Atelier Koninck
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