Case
Esparros

Case Esparros is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and visual artist whose work often explores memory, longing, and impressionistic 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. Through his films, Esparros creates an otherworldly mythology full of deeply fascinating outsider characters and eerie expressions of escapism. His short works—including Mating Season (2015), Herbert (2016), Eternal Reward (2016), and Hallucinations of a Desolate Hero (2018) have screened widely and garnered praise for their sensitivity and surreal tone. His 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. In addition to narrative work, Esparros has directed music videos for musicians such as David Liebe Hart and Hihelga. Currently in pre-production on his third feature, a biopic on St. Damien of Molokai entitled, To Euthanize a Still Fluttering Spirit, 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.