Calico Pie — Suzanne Birrell’s Preposterously Peculiar Picture Show of Nonsense
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Welcome to Calico Pie

Nonsense deserves
beautiful production values.

Suzanne Birrell’s music, Edward Lear’s impossible world, and a picture-show vocabulary built from color, craft, character and delight.

The Picture Show

Ten films, one peculiar little universe. Each story gets its own world, but the craft, color and visual language belong to the same family.

Take the whole show home

All ten films, yours to keep.

Full-resolution 1920×1080 masters, the same files we finish with. One payment, permanent access, downloadable on any device — no subscription and nothing to renew.

$14.95One time · all ten episodes

The Midway

The films are the attraction. The Midway is everything around them: the maker, the music and how the impossible machinery works.

Meet Suzanne

Music, vocals, arrangements and the peculiar sensibility at the center of the show.

Behind the Picture Show

How character, continuity, color and handcrafted visual language turn Lear’s nonsense into moving pictures.

Act One — play it

Help the Dong find his luminous nose across the Gromboolian plain. The first of the midway’s sideshow acts.

Calico Pie

A brand large enough to hold the whole peculiar world.

The long title still belongs where it matters — on the films, in the credits and in the history of the project. Calico Pie gives the audience one short, memorable front door.

“Suzanne Birrell’s Preposterously Peculiar Picture Show of Nonsense.”

Now playing at CalicoPie.com