Fresh
While it doesn't add up to enough to make us as fascinated as Nolan, it may open some eyes to the discipline's abstract possibilities.
Tom Russo, Boston Globe
Quay
We don’t try to emulate what’s outside our window, that’s the last thing we want to emulate.
2015 · 8m · Not Rated Documentary
Overview
In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm presentation. The three films—"In Absentia" (2000), "The Comb" (1991) and "Street of Crocodiles" (1986)—were accompanied by this brief portrait of the brothers at work in their London studio.
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