In the context of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019, the Quay Brothers presented their dreamlike installation 'Dream Holes & Collecting Pools' in TENT. IFFR curator was Edwin Carels.
For several years now, the Quay Brothers have been working on their third feature film, inspired by a story by Polish writer Bruno Schulz: 'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass' (1937). With their installation in TENT they introduced a number of motifs, images and objects from this project. A man travels to his father who is staying in a sanatorium. This turns out to be a floating universe, somewhere between waking and sleeping, where time cannot be measured by clocks. In the unstable labyrinth of uncertainty, objects and events wander through the sanatorium on their own.
De IFFR installation invited the audience to discover the mythological-poetic world of Bruno Schulz. In a first room, 'Apparitions on Glass', stereoscopic viewers and objects prepared the viewer for a second room, where a miniature sanatorium rose from a pool of water, as if rising from the underworld.
Quay Brothers
Stephen and Timothy QUAY (1947, USA) have been building an enigmatic, dark oeuvre since the XNUMXs. Their work consists mainly of stop-motion films, but also of drawings, set designs and peep boxes.