Short film

Yellow Fever

2012 · 7 min

A visually inventive and emotionally raw essay that makes you sit with discomfort and see beauty standards anew.

Directed by: Ng'endo Mukii
Genres: Animation, Documentary
Starring: Fumy Opeyemi, Chipo Kureya, Margaret Njeri Mereka

Overview: 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.

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Directed by: Ng'endo Mukii
Genres: Animation, Documentary
Starring: Fumy Opeyemi, Chipo Kureya, Margaret Njeri Mereka

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
race
media
gender
colonialism
Places: None
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: animated
documentary
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Humour	1
Realism	8
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Tension	3
Darkness	6
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: animation, documentary
Directed by: Ng'endo Mukii
Written by: Ng'endo Mukii
Starring: Fumy Opeyemi, Chipo Kureya, Margaret Njeri Mereka, Sam Nokuzola Moyo, Abriani Njeri
Runtime: 7 min
Country: Kenya, United Kingdom
Languages: English

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