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.
Top-billed cast
- HHenry Waxman
- ZZhu Er
- MMichael Bloomberg
- QQian Yunqiu
- YYulina Semenova
- SScott Pelley
- HHe Zhijie
- BBen Bernanke
- SSlavoj Žižek
- BBake He
Crew
- Director
- Michael Blum
- Writers
- Michael Gilson, Michael Blum
- Production
- La biennale de Montreal, One Fifty Productions
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Who directed The Swap?
The Swap was directed by Michael Blum.
When was The Swap released?
The Swap was released in 2016.
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