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Yellow Fever

Animation
Documentary
7 mins
7.6
2012

Description

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.

Casts:

Fumy Opeyemi
Chipo Kureya
Margaret Njeri Mereka
Sam Nokuzola Moyo
Abriani Njeri

Trailer

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