
Carlos Motta, Deseos (2015)
In the film Deseos (Desires) https://vimeo.com/127254583 Carlos Motta fictionalizes the subjective experiences of two women in the early nineteenth century, one residing in the Ottoman city of Beirut who was punished by her mother for having a same-sex relation and forced to marry her lover’s brother, and one living in what is now Colombia who was prosecuted for being a “hermaphrodite” (intersex). The Colombian woman’s case is based on legal archives kept by the Spanish col