The Swap - 2016

The Swap 2016 Directed by Michael Blum

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.

Countries Canada , USA

Production Countries Canada , China

Language English

Gnere Documentary

Production Companies One Fifty Productions , La biennale de Montreal

Release Date 19 October 2016

33 mins