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
Self
Bake He
Dancer
Cao Lu
Dancer
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Cherry Wang
Dancer
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Choi A Ran
Dancer
He Zhijie
Dancer
Jia Junjie
Dancer
Liu Huiling
Dancer
Qian Yunqiu
Dancer
Yangsu Ruyi
Dancer
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Yang Yahang
Dancer
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Zhang Wanying
Dancer
Michael Blum Director
First release October 19, 2016 · Produced in Canada, China · Production One Fifty Productions
Production
La biennale de Montreal
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One Fifty Productions
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Canada · China
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Original language
English
Release dates
Canada · October 19, 2016
Premiere · La Biennale de Montréal 2016 – Le Grand Balcon 19 Oct 2016 - 15 Jan 2017
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