A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
October 19, 2016
Original Title:
The Swap
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
La biennale de Montreal
One Fifty Productions
Production Countries:
Canada | China
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 33
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.
Audio Post Coordinator:
Bruno Bélanger
Camera Operator:
Roberto Gianstefani
Director:
Michael Blum
Editor:
Michael Blum
Location Scout:
Zhu Li
Post-Production Manager:
Laura Novo
Production Assistant:
Sara Di Donato
Ray Qui
Paul Han
Filippo Soevv
Zhu Li
Project Manager:
Carlotta Godio
Script Editor:
Michael Gilson
Sound Recordist:
Roberto Gianstefani
Steadicam Operator:
Roberto Gianstefani
Translator:
Zhu Li
Writer:
Michael Blum
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