ガラスの仮面

Glass Tears / 2001

An ex-cop searches for a missing teen as a favour to her parents.

Eurydice: She, So Beloved / 2007

Commissioned by Opera North, the Brothers Quay created the installation and film 'She, So Beloved' inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem ‘Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.’ The Orfeo myth is re-told through a combination of art forms; film, dance, music and visual art contained within a contemporary staged installation to provide an intimate sensory experience.

Cells and Glass / 2021

The protagonist is a glass artisan who has undergone a transplant of an organ generated in an animal’s body. While hospitalized for the transplant, he is asked by his friend A to ‘make a glass vessel out of window glass from [A’s] old house’. After a successful transplant, various things go through the protagonist’s mind while he is making the glass piece.

Butterfly on the Windowpane / 2020

As the studious Bidya(13) prepares for her further studies, her juvenile brother Basanta(9) distracts her with his antics. But learning, his sister is giving up on her dreams, he struggles to give Bidya the hope she desperately needs.

Saving Our Fragile Earth: Unico Special Chapter / 2000

This is the fourth original animated piece for the Tezuka Osamu Animation theatre that takes up Tezuka Osamu's message of "Saving our Fragile Earth" as its theme, and together with Unico's adventures commemorates the theatre's first anniversary. Unico, a unicorn's child, has dropped down from heaven. During his journey on the north wind, he meets Tsubasa, a tree boy who can speak. The Earth has become totally ruined to the extent that no creature can live there, because humans have drained it of all resources and destroyed the environment. Unico and Tsubasa go on a journey to find a way to make the Earth inhabitable again. They finally meet the Sphinx and the "time fairy" at the end of their hard journey. They decide to go back to the past and prevent humans from taking the wrong path. However, they can stay in the past for only five minutes. Will they be able to alter the future of the Earth in such short time? Their adventures to restore the Earth begin...