Watch The Quay Brothers in 35mm Trailer

Check out the trailer for The Quay Brothers in 35mm, a touring retrospective curated by Christopher Nolan

Zeitgeist Films and Syncopy have today debuted a trailer for their upcoming touring retrospective, The Quay Brothers in 35mm. Curated by Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception), the presentation also includes Nolan’s new short film, Quay, about the inner workings of the London-based animators’ studio. Check out the trailer in the player below!

The Quay Brothers in 35mm is a 70-minute program featuring stunning new 35mm prints of three short films by Stephen and Timothy Quay alongside Nolan’s new short. It will make its debut as a one week run at New York City’s Film Forum on Wednesday, August 19. Nolan and the Quays will be together for opening night discussions and the Quays will be present throughout the first weekend.

American identical twins working in London, stop motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay (born 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) find their inspiration in Eastern European literature and classical music and art, their work distinguished by its dark humor and an uncanny feeling for color and texture. The Quays have been making their unique blend of puppetry and stop-motion animation for over 30 years and have spawned an enormous cult following. Masters of miniaturization, they turn their tiny sets into unforgettable worlds suggestive of long-repressed childhood dreams.

These three Quay masterworks, selected by Nolan, include broken pencils and lead shavings in In Absentia (2000), a porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination in The Comb (1991), and the nightmarish netherworld of Street of Crocodiles (1986)

Following its New York run, The Quay Brothers in 35mm will travel to 10 additional cities, including Dallas (Alamo Drafthouse Richardson, 9/3-7), Los Angeles (Cinefamily, 9/4-10 with appearances by Nolan), Houston (Museum of Fine Arts, 9/12-13), Austin (Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 9/17), Cleveland (Cleveland Cinematheque, 9/24-27), Boston (Brattle Theatre, 9/25-10/1), Detroit (Detroit Institute of Art, 10/9-11), Seattle (SIFF Film Center, 10/9-15), Chicago (The Music Box Theatre, 10/16-22) and Toronto (TIFF Bell Lightbox Theater, 10/27).

All four films will be shown exclusively in 35mm. If you can’t make it to a theatrical presentation, however, it was also announced today that October 20 will bring The Quay Brothers: Collected Short Films to Blu-ray. In addition to 15 Quay shorts (including three never before released on home video), the Blu-ray will contain Nolan’s Quay.