Yellow Fever
Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever

September 01, 2012 | 7 min

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.

Genres

Animation Documentary

Cast

Naomi Scott

Fumy Opeyemi

Naomi Scott

Chipo Kureya

Naomi Scott

Margaret Njeri Mereka

Naomi Scott

Sam Nokuzola Moyo

Naomi Scott

Abriani Njeri

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