The Swap

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.

Country:

Canada,

China

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

33 minutes

Year:

2016

Director:

Michael Blum

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Company:

La biennale de Montreal,

One Fifty Productions

Cast:

Self

Dancer

Dancer

Dancer

Dancer

Crew:

Director

Camera Operator

Steadicam Operator

Sound Recordist

Production Assistant