Lichtenstein StUDIO
Lichtenstein Studio is the creative hub where Joe Lichtenstein makes animations and paintings.
Joe is also an award winning theatre director.
DO YOU DREAM IN COLOUR?
In a huge imaginary city, a writer gets stuck. Everything he wants to say just won't come out. Precisely at the moment he is about to give up he gets a message from a little bird. He is led on a journey deep into an unknown and scary forest where magical secrets will be revealed to him.
An uplifting adventure story about a writer finding his inner voice and the incessant chattering of the creative mind.
Voiced by Michael Zegen (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) and Lewin Lloyd (His Dark Materials)
Directed and Animated by Joe Lichtenstein
Written by Joe Lichtenstein and Michael Zegen
Music by Marc Tritschler
CADMIUM RED NO.682
Ever felt like you don't know what to do? Well, what if in that moment your mouth took over your body? What would it do? Perhpas even, what would happen if your sharp teeth saw something tasty and dug in?
Cadmium Red No.682 is a short about the damage we can inflict on ourselves. Maybe we don't even realise we are doing it.
A mixed media film using stop frame with live figures and hand drawn animation using charcoal on paper.
Directed and animated by Joe Lichtenstein
THE DRIP
It's raining outside. It won't stop. There's a leak in the roof and just like that things go from bad to worse. A film about the ever pressing absurdities of the weather, the infantessimal minisucus between dry and wet, sane and mad.
A short film made using hand drawn charcoal stills and an old fashoined stop motion technique.
Directed and animated by Joe Lichtenstein
Original music composed by Jonny Poole
THE BIRD
What if we knew our fate before we began? And what if we could see our true selves as something beautiful? A bird with feathers perhaps...would we continue on the journey of the unknown?
A short film made in reverse.
Directed and animated by Joe Lichtenstein
