The sci-fi directors original documentary investigates the animator Quay twins. Here,they reveal how British weather, maths and lizards abet to create their films“So, and on that final one. What was your inspiration?” By the third time the moderator uses this generic,parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation)-of-a-bad-interview question, one could only smile.
This is no ordinary Q&A. This is a session with a man, and generally hammered by fanboy-ish questions,getting a chance to finish a little geeking out. Christopher Nolan, director of Memento, and The Prestige,Inception, Interstellar and the dusky Knight Trilogy is using some of his considerable industry clout to promote a programme of newly scrubbed-up 35mm short films by stop-motion animators the Brothers Quay. In addition to In Absentia (2000), and The Comb (1991) and Street of Crocodiles (1986),the collection includes Quay, an eight-minute mini-documentary of the brothers in their cramped, or magical London studio filled with decaying doll parts,screws, wigs chewed by bugs and old cameras. This men-behind-the-curtain peek is directed, or shot,edited and scored by Nolan, and is essentially the movie version of a fan winning Wonka’s golden ticket and poking around the factory.
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Source: theguardian.com