Yellow Fever
01/09/2012
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.
Animation
Documentary
Movie Information
Fumy Opeyemi
as Dancer
Chipo Kureya
as Dancer
Margaret Njeri Mereka
as As Self (Voice)
Sam Nokuzola Moyo
as Dancer
Abriani Njeri
as As Self (Voice)
