| Divine Carcasse | |
| Director: | Dominique Loreau |
| Producer: | Dominique Loreau |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| Country: | Benin Belgium |
| Language: | French Fon Yoruba with English subtitles |
Divine Carcasse (Divine Body) is a 1998 Beninese ethnofiction film directed by the Belgian filmmaker Dominique Loreau.[1]
Mixing fiction and ethnography, the film follows a 1955 Peugeot: initially owned by Simon, an expatriate European philosophy lecturer, the car comes to be owned by Joseph, who uses it as a taxi until it is abandoned at a mechanic's workshop. There it is scavenged for parts used by the artist Simonet Biokou to create a sculpture of the ram god Agbo.[2] The car is caught between commodity fetishism and post-colonial fetish spirituality: