Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever

2012 en 7 minutes

Rating: 7.6

Plot

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.

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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)

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