The Swap

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The Swap (2016)

Directed by Michael Blum

Documentary · 33m

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.

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Cast

M
Michael Blum Self
B
Bake He Dancer Cao Lu Dancer
C
Cherry Wang Dancer
C
Choi A Ran Dancer
H
He Zhijie Dancer
J
Jia Junjie Dancer
L
Liu Huiling Dancer
Q
Qian Yunqiu Dancer
Y
Yangsu Ruyi Dancer
Y
Yang Yahang Dancer
Z
Zhang Wanying Dancer

Crew

Director
Michael Blum
Writer
Michael Blum
Editor
Michael Blum

Details

Release date
2016-10-19
Runtime
33m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Countries
Canada, China
Production
La biennale de Montreal, One Fifty Productions