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Case Esparros

Born December 27, 1995 · New Orleans, Louisiana, US (age 30)

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 …

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MEAT MACHINE

MEAT MACHINE · 2025

The atomic-bomb is about to be dropped on a small Texas town

King Baby

King Baby · 2019

A 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.

Sometimes I Think We All Go Up In Smoke

Sometimes I Think We All Go Up In Smoke · 2025

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

The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost

The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost · 2023

The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost

A 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.

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MEAT MACHINE

MEAT MACHINE · 2025

The atomic-bomb is about to be dropped on a small Texas town

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King Baby

King Baby · 2019

A 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.

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Sometimes I Think We All Go Up In Smoke

Sometimes I Think We All Go Up In Smoke · 2025

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

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The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost

The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost · 2023

The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost

A 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.

Writer