Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever

Released on
Animation, Documentary
Runtime
7 mins
(7 votes)

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.

Cast

  • Fumy Opeyemi
  • Chipo Kureya
  • Margaret Njeri Mereka
  • Sam Nokuzola Moyo
  • Abriani Njeri

Director

  • Ng'endo Mukii

Producers

    Screenwriter

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