Divine Carcasse

"Divine Body" redirects here. For the concept in theurgy, see Divine embodiment.

Divine Carcasse (Divine Body) is a 1998 Beninese ethnofiction film directed by the Belgian filmmaker Dominique Loreau.^[1]

Divine Carcasse
Directed by	Dominique Loreau
Produced by	Dominique Loreau
Release date	1998 (1998)
Running time	60 minutes
Countries	Benin Belgium
Languages	French Fon Yoruba with English subtitles

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:

Secondhand neocolonialism becomes first-class colonized semideity [...] As a car the Peugeot works fitfully; as a divinity it works superbly.^[1]