''Divine Carcasse'' (''Divine Body'') is a 1998 Beninese ethnofiction film directed by the Belgian filmmaker Dominique Loreau. Mixing

fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditi ...

and

ethnography Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

, 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 Simonet Biokou is a Beninois Vodou artist. He is based in Porto Novo, Benin, where Vodou (or Voodoo) is an official religion practiced by 40% of the population. Biokou is noted for his work using scrap metals, including the rims of wheels and ...

to create a sculpture of the ram god Agbo.Susan Gorman
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 Postcolonialism is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands. More specifically, it is a ...

fetish spirituality:

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