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