Yellow Fever

20127m7.6 (7)
AnimationDocumentary

What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually arresting and psychologically penetrating exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.

Crew

Ng'endo Mukii

Ng'endo Mukii

Writer

Ng'endo Mukii

Ng'endo Mukii

Director

Cast

FO

Fumy Opeyemi

Dancer

Chipo Kureya

Chipo Kureya

Dancer

MN

Margaret Njeri Mereka

As Self (Voice)

Sam Nokuzola Moyo

Sam Nokuzola Moyo

Dancer

AN

Abriani Njeri

As Self (Voice)

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