Divine Carcass (1998)

1h 23m
Running Time

January 27, 1998
Release Date

Divine Carcass (1998)

1h 23m
Running Time

January 27, 1998
Release Date

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This film follows the fortunes of an old Peugeot off loaded in Cotonou, Benin. As it changes hands we get a glimpse into the lives of its successive owners.

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Release Date
January 27, 1998

Original Name
Divine Carcasse

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 23m

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africa
woman director
peugeot

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Divine Carcasse (Divine Body) is a 1998 Beninese ethnofiction film directed by the Belgian filmmaker Dominique Loreau.

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. The car is caught between commodity fetishism and post-colonial fetish spirituality:

Secondhand neocolonialism becomes first-class colonized semideity [...] As a car the Peugeot works fitfully; as a divinity it works superbly.

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