Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass Blu-ray
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Posted December 30, 2025 07:03 AM by Webmaster
KimStim is preparing a Blu-ray release of the Quay Brothers' Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass (2024). The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on April 7.
Description: Twenty years after their last feature, the Quay Brothers return to the work of Polish author and visual artist Bruno Schulz (The Street of Crocodiles) for inspiration. A son's visit to his dying father begins with a phantom train ride to a decaying, otherworldly sanatorium, where he experiences seven fragmented "manifestations" of a parental entity. Applying their meticulously handcrafted, stop-motion puppet animation and musical sensibilities, along with moments of live action, they translate Schulz's metaphorical language to the screen. The "degraded" sense of reality that the filmmakers admire in the writer's work minimizes characters, narrative, and the spoken word, aspiring instead to a visualization of the metaphysical.
Presented by Academy Award Winning Filmmaker, Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, Inception, Interstellar), Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass is otherworldly, anti-war statement of stark, macabre beauty.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: Twenty years after their last feature, the Quay Brothers return to the work of Polish author and visual artist Bruno Schulz (The Street of Crocodiles) for inspiration. A son's visit to his dying father begins with a phantom train ride to a decaying, otherworldly sanatorium, where he experiences seven fragmented "manifestations" of a parental entity. Applying their meticulously handcrafted, stop-motion puppet animation and musical sensibilities, along with moments of live action, they translate Schulz's metaphorical language to the screen. The "degraded" sense of reality that the filmmakers admire in the writer's work minimizes characters, narrative, and the spoken word, aspiring instead to a visualization of the metaphysical.
Presented by Academy Award Winning Filmmaker, Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, Inception, Interstellar), Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass is otherworldly, anti-war statement of stark, macabre beauty.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- The Art Teacher from Drohobycz - Bruno Schulz by the Quay Brothers (Polish Cultural Institute in London)
- Quay Brothers Q&A on stop motion animation (Courtesy Garden Cinema London)
- Theatrical introduction by the Quay Brothers
- Trailer
