Directing
Case Esparros
Born 1995-12-27 · New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Case Esparros is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and visual artist whose work often explores fractured memory, longing, and expressionistic portraits of solitude. A graduate of ArtCenter College of Design, Esparros has developed a deeply personal unique visual language, blending experimental and narrative forms of cinema to create films that feel intimate, uncanny, and emotionally resonant with his DIY film production label "Dancing Fireman Pictures." Through his films, Esparros creates an otherworldly mythology full of deeply fascinating outsider characters and eerie expressions of escapism. His short works have screened widely and garnered major praise in underground film circles for their sensitivity, surreal tone & world building. His no budget debut feature, a vivid gutter collage of the Christ story, King Baby (2019), was followed by his second feature The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost (2023), a haunting expressionist lyrical portrait of disconnection, grief and desire. Esparros continues to build an oeuvre rooted in handmade aesthetics, inner risk taking, and a commitment to storytelling as a form of personal and collective liberation. He lives and works in Highland Park, where he remains an active part of the Los Angeles creative community.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
NRchapter i: SOMETIMES I THINK WE ALL GO UP IN SMOKE -A woman longs for one joyful Halloween with her family, but the ghosts of her past ignite a flame within her that she cannot control chapter ii : HARMONY IN HYDROCHLORIC HOSPITAL -A lonely lumberjack forms an unexpected bond with a terminally ill orphan at the Hospital on Christmas Eve, finding comfort in each other and making a promise to share the holiday together. chapter iii: UNTIL THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO HEAR -Haunted by the final days of a failing relationship, a reclusive painter retreats to a motel after a bitter Valentine's Day fight to finish his masterpiece.
The Holiday Trilogy
2025
NRchapter i: SOMETIMES I THINK WE ALL GO UP IN SMOKE -A woman longs for one joyful Halloween with her family, but the ghosts of her past ignite a flame within her that she cannot control chapter ii : HARMONY IN HYDROCHLORIC HOSPITAL -A lonely lumberjack forms an unexpected bond with a terminally ill orphan at the Hospital on Christmas Eve, finding comfort in each other and making a promise to share the holiday together. chapter iii: UNTIL THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO HEAR -Haunted by the final days of a failing relationship, a reclusive painter retreats to a motel after a bitter Valentine's Day fight to finish his masterpiece.
The Holiday Trilogy
2025
NRA collage storybook retelling of the Jesus Christ story with Digital, Super 8, 16MM, and VHS, primarily set within a decaying and run-down world and divided into three acts. Accompanying the film's images is distilled church music provided by various noise artists. This is the first feature film from Los Angeles experimental filmmaker Case Esparros and was released in 2019.
King Baby
2019
NRA collage storybook retelling of the Jesus Christ story with Digital, Super 8, 16MM, and VHS, primarily set within a decaying and run-down world and divided into three acts. Accompanying the film's images is distilled church music provided by various noise artists. This is the first feature film from Los Angeles experimental filmmaker Case Esparros and was released in 2019.
King Baby
2019
7.0A single mother struggles with the grief of her missing child on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance, while her neighborhood milkman begins to feel a strong connection to her grief.
The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost
2023
7.0A single mother struggles with the grief of her missing child on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance, while her neighborhood milkman begins to feel a strong connection to her grief.
The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost
2023