The Swap (2016)
33m
Running Time
October 19, 2016Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.

Michael Blum
Self / Director / Writer / Editor

Bake He
Dancer

Cao Lu
Dancer

Cherry Wang
Dancer

Choi A Ran
Dancer

He Zhijie
Dancer

Jia Junjie
Dancer

Liu Huiling
Dancer

Qian Yunqiu
Dancer

Yangsu Ruyi
Dancer

Yang Yahang
Dancer

Zhang Wanying
Dancer

Zhu Er
Dancer

Zhu Li
Dancer / Translator / Production Assistant / Location Scout

Sara Di Donato
Dancer / Production Assistant

Paulina Przeniczna
Dancer

Yulina Semenova
Dancer

Paul Han
DJ / Production Assistant

Scott Pelley
Self (voice)

Milton Friedman
Self (voice)

Ben Bernanke
Self (voice)

Joseph Stiglitz
Self (voice)

Slavoj Žižek
Self (voice)

Henry Waxman
Self (voice)

Saskia Sassen
Self (voice)

Phil Donahue
Self (voice)

Michael Bloomberg
Self (voice)

Margaret Thatcher
Self (voice)

Roberto Gianstefani
Steadicam Operator / Camera Operator / Sound Recordist

Ray Qui
Production Assistant

Carlotta Godio
Project Manager
