| Divine Carcasse | |
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| Directed by | Dominique Loreau |
| Produced by | Dominique Loreau |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Countries | Benin Belgium |
| Languages | 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:
Secondhand neocolonialism becomes first-class colonized semideity [...] As a car the Peugeot works fitfully; as a divinity it works superbly.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Tom Zaniello (2018). The Cinema of Globalization: A Guide to Films about the New Economic Order. Cornell University Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-5017-1134-3.
- ^ Susan Gorman, From (French) Automobile to (Beninois) Agbo: Mythology, Modernity and Divine Carcasse, EnterText, Vol. 4, No. 2
External links
[edit]- Divine Carcasse at IMDb
- Divine Caracsse, California Newsreel.
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