The Swap
2016, English. 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.
- Runtime
- 0h 33m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 19 October 2016
- Country
- Canada, China
- Written by
- Michael Blum
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The Swap runs 33 minutes (0h 33m).
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Which OTT platform is The Swap on?
The Swap isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 19 October 2016. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Swap?
If you liked The Swap, try A Toxic Love Story, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library, Fuck.
Who directed The Swap?
The Swap (2016) was directed by Michael Blum and stars Michael Blum, Bake He, Cao Lu.