January 22, 2013 // Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers // Bjorn

The delightfully creepy short films made by the delightfully creepy Quay Brothers are my pick for this upcoming installment of Trill Movie Night.

This might be my first time picking a movie without subtitles-- and that's only because there's no real dialogue! Instead, you have a largely "non-narrative experience, riveting the attention through hypnotic control of décor, music and movement".

These experimental animators have been making stop animation films since 1979 and are credited with helping to establish the puppet film as a serious adult art form. They were recently honored with a retrospective of their entire career as artists at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and I was lucky enough to see it when I was there (as Trill Movie Night's foremost expert on The Quay Brothers, I will be taking questions at the end of the night).

There are about 13 short films in this series-- DON'T WORRY, we won't be watching them all!. I am still in the process of picking which shorts to show to fit into our usual time frame and to showcase a range of their work. But rest assured, each film is guaranteed to be "fraught with unresolved dreamlike narratives and psychosexual tensions".

Excited yet??!! The meet me and the Quay Brothers' disturbing visions at Brittany and Austin's place this Tuesday, Jan 22 at 6:30

-bjorn