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.

Cast

Fumy Opeyemi

Dancer

Chipo Kureya

Dancer

Margaret Njeri Mereka

As Self (Voice)

Sam Nokuzola Moyo

Dancer

Abriani Njeri

As Self (Voice)

Crew

Ng'endo Mukii

Writer

Ng'endo Mukii

Director

James Hynes

Sound Mixer

Alex MacNaughton

Cinematography

Kadialy Kouyate

Music

Ng'endo Mukii

Editor