The Swap (2016)

The Swap is the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards (1998) and The Three Failures (2006). It features the same character as in the previous episodes, but now reduced to a lost, exhausted soul roaming Shanghai's cityscape from the remotest periphery to the financial district. Another narrative, spoken this one, takes us to September 2008, as gigantic bailouts put the financial system on life support instead of letting it collapse, thus seizing our reality and replacing it with a fiction tailored for the situation. These two streams end up meeting on a Shanghai dancefloor, where unresolved contradictions can finally be performed.

Directing:
  • Michael Blum

Writing:
  • Michael Gilson
  • Michael Blum

Stars:
Release Date: 2016-10-19
  • Country: CA, CN
  • Language: en
  • Runtime: 33
Yangsu Ruyi
Yangsu Ruyi
Dancer
Cao Lu
Cao Lu
Dancer
Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley
Self (voice)
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedm...
Self (voice)
Ben Bernanke
Ben Bernanke
Self (voice)
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stigli...
Self (voice)
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
Self (voice)
Phil Donahue
Phil Donahue
Self (voice)
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloom...
Self (voice)
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret That...
Self (voice)
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