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.
Cast
Michael Blum
Self
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
Sara Di Donato
Dancer
Paulina Przeniczna
Dancer
Yulina Semenova
Dancer
Paul Han
DJ
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)
Crew
Director, Writer
Michael Blum
Script Editor
Michael Gilson
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