Yellow Fever

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2012 / 7min.

Rating7.6

Genres

Animation

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Chipo Kureya

Fumy Opeyemi

Margaret Njeri Mereka

Sam Nokuzola Moyo

Abriani Njeri

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