Heterotopias, according to Michel Foucault, are real places that do exist and that are formed in the very founding of society, which are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites are simultaneously represented, contested and inverted. Foucault's concept of heterotopia may be combined with Henri Lefebvre's spatial triad to address the emergence of such spaces in Colombian documentaries filmed in rural areas. This chapter discusses three films that use the presence of heterotopias as spatial
