Nocturna Artificialia (1979) Quay Brothers part 1

Oldest surviving piece.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• quay
• brothers
• animation
• short
• film
• experimental

[gtsvideodotcom]

Artistic perception might be the opposite of mass transportation. This one really snuck up on me.

[Putaspellonyou]

i remember seeing these films on television in the 80s and 90s. chilling stuff but had a great impact on my view of art in general. there was a time, believe it or not, when cable was daring and provocative like this...

[futuristfood]

im a whore for brothers quay.



[NuclearLullaby]

I really like some of the little imperfections that can be found in this style of animation!The Brothers Quay also seem to play with textures & colors that give a kind of aged industrial look to what they do! They are simply brilliant artists!

[WildWelshWitch]

@fogwatch I think it's the organ music. that always makes me think of church

[fogwatch]

Why does this film always have a very Sundayish atmosphere to it for me?!

[antag0nismo]

Oh right, i like Bartok.

[kiracore84]

yeah, it probably is. the soundtrack is kind of a collage of original and old musics. there's a little bit of Bartok in there for example. it would take an organ music expert to identify all the excerpts.

[antag0nismo]

Thanks. I thought it was an old piece from a well known composer.

[kiracore84]

the film soundtrack is by Stefan Cichonski, but it would probably be very hard to trace all the bits of organ music he used