https://vo.rs/tags/surrealist-cinema/Latest from the Surrealist Cinema desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/institute-benjamenta-the-quay-brothers-only-live-action-feature/<p>The Quay Brothers spent the 1980s making some of the most influential animation in the world without most of the world noticing. Stephen and Timothy Quay, American twins who settled in London, built miniature universes out of doll parts, dust, screws, and dead-eyed puppets, and their 1986 short <em>Street of Crocodiles</em> rearranged the nervous systems of everyone who later made a music video or a horror film about a haunted room full of objects. Then in 1995 they did the thing nobody expected. They pointed a camera at actual human beings and made a feature.</p>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000