# animate! › Films › The Phantom Museum by The Quay Brothers › direction & collaboration

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, live action and animation, museums, medical history, objects, experimental documentary, filmmaker, animator

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**The Phantom Museum – Random Forays into Sir Henry Wellcome’s Medical Collection** a film by The Quay Brothers

2003, 11 min 30 sec

### The Quay Brothers

#### biography

[Timothy and Stephan Quay](http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/current/quays/quays.html) come from Philadelphia but have lived in London since 1977, making [animated films](http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/19/quay.html#1) plus, in 1994, the live-action feature [The Institute Benjamenta](http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.3/articles/buchan1.3.html) . Their recent [In Absentia](http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/quay.html) , a collaboration with Karlheinz Stockhausen, has garnered a great number of prizes.

They have also designed for the theatre, including work for English National Opera, Theatre de Complicité and the Royal National Theatre.

March 2003

**The Phantom Museum – Random Forays into Sir Henry Wellcome’s Medical Collection** film, stills and other materials © Koninck Studios 2003