The missing person In production / Documentary

Havana, Cuba. Chinolope is 87 years old, and lives with his wife, Esperanza, in a marginal neighborhood of Havana. He began his career in New York capturing the death of the famous gangster, Albert Anastasia. These days, his days are spent at home, now used to the fact that newspapers identify his pictures as archived material, and that television discusses his work as if he were already dead. The small 3 meters squared room they inhabit has only one door, through which one enters and exits. However, Chinolope has 13 keys on his keyring. The other 12 are for locking the drawers where he keeps the original negatives of the pictures he took of the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre, Fidel Castro, Julio Cortázar, etc. At this point, when ostracism and madness have subdued him, Chinolope resembles a Kafkaesque character, proclaiming: “This Island is my Universe.”