2009  ·  Sweden, United States  ·  Documentary

Strike Anywhere

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Strike Anywhere

  • 2009
  • Sweden, United States
  • Documentary
  • English
  • -
  • 32 mins
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Strike Anywhere is a video essay that takes as its point of departure Swedish "Match King" Ivar Kreuger, whose privatization of financial crisis management strategies bears a direct relation to late-20th Century policies implemented by the IMF and WTO. Between 1917 and 1932, Kreuger capitalized on shifts in global financial markets to control over 200 companies and establish matchstick monopolies in at least 34 countries. At the height of his success, Ivar Kreuger was worth approximately 30 million Swedish kronor (the equivalent of 100 billion USD today). The project is both a prehistory of neoliberal economics and an allegory about social relations and desire in the wake of global capitalist expansion and excess.

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Director
Benj Gerdes, Jennifer Hayashida
Writer
Benj Gerdes, Jennifer Hayashida
Producer
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