Divine Carcasse (1998)
- Directed by
- Dominique Loreau
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Benin
- Runtime
- 1h
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This film follows the life of a 1955 Peugeot car in Benin. The car passes from a European lecturer to a taxi driver and then to a mechanic before its parts are used in an artist's sculpture of a ram god.
contemplativeobservationalmeasuredreflectiveunhurriedatmosphericquotidianphilosophical
What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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