Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

(Quay Brothers, 2024) 

Followed by Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (Quay Brothers, 2013)

The Wex favorites the Quay Brothers return with their first feature in 20 years! A darkly atmospheric stop-motion masterpiece, the film follows the ghostly train journey of Jozef, a young man who is traveling to the sanatorium where his father has died. Upon arrival, he meets the dubious Doctor Gotard, who informs him that his father is in fact not yet dead. Jozef comes to realize the sanatorium itself occupies a netherworld between slumber and wakefulness, where time does not operate as expected. Like the Quays’ masterpiece Street of Crocodiles (1986), their latest is based on the work of Polish novelist Bruno Schulz. (76 mins., DCP) 
 
The Quay Brothers’ short film Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. will screen after the feature. Unmistaken Hands received postproduction support in the Wexner Center’s Moving Image Studio as part of an Artist Residency Award in Film and had its world premiere at the center in 2013. (26 mins., DCP)