{{redirect|Divine Body|the concept in theurgy|Divine embodiment}} {{Infobox film | name = Divine Carcasse | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Dominique Loreau | producer = Dominique Loreau | writer = | starring = | music = | editing = | studio = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1998}} | runtime = 60 minutes | country = Benin<br/>Belgium | language = French<br/>Fon<br/>Yoruba with<br/>English subtitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''Divine Carcasse''''' ('''''Divine Body''''') is a 1998 Beninese ethnofiction film directed by the Belgian filmmaker Dominique Loreau.<ref name="Zaniello2018">{{cite book|author=Tom Zaniello|title=The Cinema of Globalization: A Guide to Films about the New Economic Order|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1aFhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA68|year=2018|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-1-5017-1134-3|page=68}}</ref>
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.<ref>Susan Gorman, [https://www.brunel.ac.uk/creative-writing/research/entertext/documents/entertext042/Susan-Gorman-From-French-Automobile-to-Beninois-Agbo-Mythology-Modernity-and-Divine-Carcasse-an-essay.pdf From (French) Automobile to (Beninois) Agbo: Mythology, Modernity and Divine Carcasse], ''EnterText'', Vol. 4, No. 2</ref> The car is caught between commodity fetishism and post-colonial fetish spirituality:
{{quote|''Secondhand neocolonialism becomes first-class colonized semideity [...] As a car the Peugeot works fitfully; as a divinity it works superbly.''<ref name="Zaniello2018"/>}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|tt0155674}} * [http://newsreel.org/video/DIVINE-CARCASSE Divine Caracsse], ''California Newsreel''. {{Benin-film-stub}} Category:1998 films Category:Beninese drama films Category:1998 drama films