The document discusses the twin brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay, known for their stop motion animation films. It provides background that the brothers moved to England in 1969 where they began their film careers, influenced by Jan Svankmajer and Franz Kafka. Their films used stop motion animation with esoteric imagery and poetic, haunting styles. Their 1979 film "Nocturna Artificialia" used absence of light, poetic elements like red as a motif, and camera pans of empty spaces with bits of text. The document examines how puppet animation represents a hybrid form between a created "world" and representations of the real world.

1. THE BROTHERS QUAY

3. Aesthetic & Style -Stop Motion Animation -Esoteric Imagery -Dark -Poetic and haunting -Cinematic

4. “ ...The Quays’ puppet films present ‘real spaces (sets) and figures in the cinematic illusion, not drawn ones. The idea of an animated ‘realm’ created by the technique demands a different approach towards understanding the spectator’s experience of their cinematic worlds” (Buchan 18).

7. “ Puppet animation elicits a different set of questions as it is a complex hybrid form...Puppet animation thus represents a different ‘world’ for the spectator, something between ‘a world’, created with the animation technique and ‘the world’, in its use of real objects and not representational drawings” (Buchan 21).

8. Is stop motion animation more representational/mimetic of real life because of its form? Arguably, stop motion animation is a limbo between traditional animation and live action. So...