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Yellow Fever

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.

Top Cast

  • Fumy Opeyemi

    Fumy Opeyemi

    Dancer

  • Chipo Kureya

    Chipo Kureya

    Dancer

  • Margaret Njeri Mereka

    Margaret Njeri Mereka

    As Self (Voice)

  • Sam Nokuzola Moyo

    Sam Nokuzola Moyo

    Dancer

  • Abriani Njeri

    Abriani Njeri

    As Self (Voice)

Overview

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.

Rating

7.6 / 10
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