Whenever possible, the Quay Brothers prefer to work with pre-recorded music, though Gary Tarn's score for The Phantom Museum had to be added afterwards when it became impossible to license music by the Czech composer Zdenek Liska.
10 Facts About Brothers Quay
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The Quay Brothers are best known for their puppet and feature-length films.
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Less known, but no less incisive in their creative development, is their intense engagement in stage design for opera, ballet and theatre: since 1988, the Quay Brothers have created sets and projections for performing arts productions on international stages.
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The Quay Brothers are strongly influenced by literature and the written word - from Eastern-European poetry to South American magic realism.
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The Quay Brothers produced a new film entitled Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting.
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Later in the same year, the Quay Brothers were the subject of a grand retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York entitled Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets which featured work spanning their entire career, tracing back as early as childhood, with much of the material shown for the first time.
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In 2013, the Quay Brothers were recipients of a residency program award at the Wexner Center of the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
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Visiones Fantasticas de Starewitch, Svankmajer y Los Hermanos Brothers Quay was held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona and La Casa Encendida, Madrid, respectively.
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Directly after the launch of the 35mm programme in the states, the Quay Brothers were celebrated at the Bristol Festival of Puppetry, UK.
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The Quay Brothers collaborated with Louis Andriessen in 2016 and designed decors for his opera Theatre of The World which premiered at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles before playing at the Carre Theatre in Amsterdam as part of the Holland Festival.