The Quay Brothers’ new feature is a distinctive stop-motion work where dreams, fantasies and memories blur, creating a wondrous alternative reality.
A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard who tells him that his father’s death, the death that has struck him in his country has not yet occurred, and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time of which the length cannot be defined. Jozef will come to realise that the Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form.
Experience the magic of The Quay Brothers’ third feature – a tale told through puppet animation and live-action, inspired by the book The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz, on the UK’s largest screen.
Followed by a Q&A with the Quay Brothers
Throughout March there will be an exhibition of Quay Brothers animation artefacts – 23 of their immaculately hand-crafted puppet film sets – on display in Bloomsbury’s Swedenborg House.
