Yellow Fever (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.

Released Sept. 1, 2012 7 min None+

Genres: Animation, Documentary, Short

Keywords: tmdb.racism, tmdb.skin, tmdb.woman-director, tmdb.colorism, mdblist.imdb-short, tmdb.short-film

Country: Kenya
Production Countries: United Kingdom, Kenya
Languages: English