The Brothers Quay.

Death, Decay, and Nothingness.
Stephen and timothy Quay, identical twins. Born in Norrisrown, near Philadelphia, 1947.
After Graduation from Philadelphia collage of art, they won a scholarship to the royal collage of art in london. They made their first few films (lost) with Keith Griffiths who collaborated with them again for the BFI funded project "Nocturna Articialia" (1979.)
Working a Koninck Studios the Quay Brothers have maintained a steady out-put of surrealist and fastidious puppet animations. They have also worked within the realms of theatre- designing sets- to help fund their avant-garde projects.
The films draw heavily on 20th century visual and literacy culture- Bruno Schulz, Max Ernst, and Jan Svankajen.
"The world invented by the Quay Brothers appears frozen in time, covered with dust and cobwebs, full of mirrors and strange machinery- a world stored in a locked room or glass cabinet that nobody has accessed in decades. The colour scheme often suggest hues of old photographs: sepias, browns and dirty yellows predominate."
The Quay Brothers remain directors- animators happy to live like their characters and objects, in remote, hermetic haze.