The Swap - 2016

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.

33min
2016
Released
Trakio rating0.0/10

Cast

Cao Lu profile pictureCao LuDancer
Scott Pelley profile pictureScott PelleySelf (voice)
Milton Friedman profile pictureMilton FriedmanSelf (voice)
Ben Bernanke profile pictureBen BernankeSelf (voice)
Joseph Stiglitz profile pictureJoseph StiglitzSelf (voice)
Slavoj Žižek profile pictureSlavoj ŽižekSelf (voice)
Phil Donahue profile picturePhil DonahueSelf (voice)
Michael Bloomberg profile pictureMichael BloombergSelf (voice)
Margaret Thatcher profile pictureMargaret ThatcherSelf (voice)

About The Swap

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.

Runtime: 33min

Extra details

Original Title: The Swap
Original Language: English
Directed By: Michael Blum
Production Companies
La biennale de MontrealOne Fifty Productions