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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.

Top Cast

  • Michael Blum

    Michael Blum

    Self

  • Bake He

    Bake He

    Dancer

  • Cao Lu

    Cao Lu

    Dancer

  • Cherry Wang

    Cherry Wang

    Dancer

  • Choi A Ran

    Choi A Ran

    Dancer

  • He Zhijie

    He Zhijie

    Dancer

  • Jia Junjie

    Jia Junjie

    Dancer

  • Liu Huiling

    Liu Huiling

    Dancer

  • Qian Yunqiu

    Qian Yunqiu

    Dancer

Overview

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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