THE QUAY BROTHERS IN 35MM This Weekend at Webster University

THE QUAY BROTHERS IN 35MM screens this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (April 22nd. 23rd, and 24th) at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E. Lockwood, Webster Groves, MO 63119). The program begins each evening at 7:30. 

Christopher Nolan has launched some of the most ambitious blockbusters of the past decade including INCEPTION, INTERSTELLAR and his Batman trilogy. The filmmaker’s newest project has nothing to do with his own films. Screening this weekend at Webster University, THE QUAY BROTHERS IN 35mm is a dazzling collection of experimental shorts from identical twin stop-motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay. Curated by Nolan himself, and including his new eight-minute short film, QUAY, the program finds Nolan using his international recognition to shine a spotlight on two of the most visionary animators working in cinema today.

The program consists of Nolan’s 8-minute documentary about the Quays and three shorts by the Brothers Quay:

IN ABSENTIA (2000 – 20 minutes) is a short is set to a nightmarish score by Karlheinz Stockhausen and uses impressionistic black-and-white cinematography to tell the story of a woman trapped inside an insane asylum.

THE COMB (1991 – 18 minutes) stars a cast of battered, blank-eyed dolls who inhabit th erotic dream of a sleeping, live-action actress. Phallic ladders rise and fall through mysterious orifices, fingers flick back and forht in a blurred frenzy, a map to unknown tyerrain is distorted in the background. The woman awakens, having only fleeting memories of this worls. She combs her hair as her mind purges her dream.

STREET OF CROCODILES (1986 – 20 minutes) follows a gaunt puppet who is released from his strings as he explores his bizarre surroundings: rooms full of dark shadows, unexplained machinery, and strange eyeless dolls. Everything has a sense of decay and melacnholy. There is a hint of a plot possibly dealing with sexual tension but really it’s about establishing a mood and a nightmarish and sinister world.

Admission is:

$6 for the general public
$5 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$4 for Webster University staff and faculty

Free for Webster students with proper I.D.

Advance tickets are available from the cashier before each screening or contact the Film Series office (314-246-7525) for more options. The Film Series can only accept cash or check.

The Webster University Film Series site can be found HERE

http://www.webster.edu/film-series/

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