
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.
Yellow Fever
September 1, 2012
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Cast (5)

Fumy Opeyemi
Dancer

Chipo Kureya
Dancer

Margaret Njeri Mereka
As Self (Voice)

Sam Nokuzola Moyo
Dancer

Abriani Njeri
As Self (Voice)
Crew (6)
Directing

Ng'endo Mukii
Director
Writing

Ng'endo Mukii
Writer
Production
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James Hynes
Sound Mixer

Kadialy Kouyate
Music
Art
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Alex MacNaughton
Cinematography
Editing

Ng'endo Mukii
Editor