Socialist identity in the making – Lea aus dem Süden (Gottfried Kolditz, GDR 1963) between French chic, socialist values and consumer culture

Lea aus dem Süden was digitized as part of Barbara Flueckiger’s ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors and the SNF Filmfarben project. Ph.D. candidates from these teams presented work throughout the three days of the conference. Despite working on disparate time periods and styles, each demonstrated how different colour film technologies operate as a site of negotiation between political and aesthetic demands. For instance, Noemi Daugaard’s paper “Technological Development Between Art and Politics: The Case of Gasparcolor” explored the fraught political landscape into which Gasparcolor emerged in 1930s Germany, considering how a colour technology considered at the time to be coded as problematically Jewish and Hungarian could be co-opted for nationalist purposes. Josephine Diecke’s insightful paper “Socialist Identity in the Making”returned to Lea aus dem Süden to consider how the film troubled the associations between femininity, consumerism and capitalism in postwar Europe, provoking animated discussion about how Socialist ideals of femininity in the GDR might help complicate the overdetermined links between women and colour in film scholarship. [Quelle: What We Talk About When We Talk About Colour. Kirsty Sinclair Dootson. Conference report. May 2018. https://colourandfilm.com/2017/12/03/featured-content/ , retrieved 12.02.2018 ]