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.

• Ng'endo MukiiWriter
• Ng'endo MukiiDirector

• Fumy OpeyemiDancer
• Chipo KureyaDancer
• Margaret Njeri MerekaAs Self (Voice)
• Sam Nokuzola MoyoDancer
• Abriani NjeriAs Self (Voice)