The Swap

The Swap (2016)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2016-10-19
  • Runtime: 0h 33min
  • Production Company: La biennale de Montreal
  • Production Country: Canada, China
  • Director: Michael Blum

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Summary

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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  • Michael Blum

    as Self

  • Bake He

    as Dancer

  • Cao Lu

    as Dancer

  • Cherry Wang

    as Dancer

  • Choi A Ran

    as Dancer

  • He Zhijie

    as Dancer

  • Jia Junjie

    as Dancer

  • Liu Huiling

    as Dancer

  • Qian Yunqiu

    as Dancer

  • Yangsu Ruyi

    as Dancer

  • Yang Yahang

    as Dancer

  • Zhang Wanying

    as Dancer

  • Zhu Er

    as Dancer

  • Zhu Li

    as Dancer

  • Sara Di Donato

    as Dancer

  • Paulina Przeniczna

    as Dancer

  • Yulina Semenova

    as Dancer

  • Paul Han

    as DJ

  • Scott Pelley

    as Self (voice)

  • Milton Friedman

    as Self (voice)

  • Ben Bernanke

    as Self (voice)

  • Joseph Stiglitz

    as Self (voice)

  • Slavoj Žižek

    as Self (voice)

  • Henry Waxman

    as Self (voice)

  • Saskia Sassen

    as Self (voice)

  • Phil Donahue

    as Self (voice)

  • Michael Bloomberg

    as Self (voice)

  • Margaret Thatcher

    as Self (voice)
Directing Michael Blum Director
Camera Roberto Gianstefani Camera Operator
Camera Roberto Gianstefani Steadicam Operator
Sound Roberto Gianstefani Sound Recordist
Production Sara Di Donato Production Assistant
Production Filippo Soevv Production Assistant
Production Ray Qui Production Assistant
Editing Carlotta Godio Project Manager
Production Paul Han Production Assistant
Production Zhu Li Production Assistant
Art Zhu Li Location Scout
Crew Zhu Li Translator
Writing Michael Blum Writer
Writing Michael Gilson Script Editor
Editing Michael Blum Editor
Sound Bruno Bélanger Audio Post Coordinator
Crew Laura Novo Post-Production Manager