The Swap

The Swap (2016)

Documentary

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.

Director: Michael Blum

Casts

	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)

Crew