The Swap

Overview

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.

Directed by Michael Blum

Top 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

Z

Zhu Er

Dancer

Z

Zhu Li

Dancer

S

Sara Di Donato

Dancer

P

Paulina Przeniczna

Dancer

Y

Yulina Semenova

Dancer

P

Paul Han

DJ

Scott Pelley

Self (voice)

Milton Friedman

Self (voice)

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