TENT WELCOMES IFFR W/ QUAY BROTHERS
With this immersive installation the Quay Brothers introduce a number of scenes and motifs from their forthcoming project: a feature film, based on Bruno Schulz’s novel Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglas (1937) by Polish author Bruno Schultz. His Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness, in a morbid ambiguity of time that cannot be measured by clocks. Stephen and Timothy QUAY (1947, USA) were educated in film and illustration at the art academy in Philadelphia and then the Royal College of Art in London. Since the 1970s, they’ve been building on a dark, enigmatic oeuvre encompassing stop-motion films, but which also includes drawings, set designs and diorama boxes. Reflected in all these works is the brothers’ fascination for 20th-century Central and Eastern European culture. More info