The Swap
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.
Cast
Crew
Michael Blum
Director
Roberto Gianstefani
Camera Operator
Roberto Gianstefani
Steadicam Operator
Roberto Gianstefani
Sound Recordist
Sara Di Donato
Production Assistant
Filippo Soevv
Production Assistant
Ray Qui
Production Assistant
Carlotta Godio
Project Manager
Paul Han
Production Assistant
Zhu Li
Production Assistant