Yellow Fever (movie)
- User score: 7.6
- Production country: Kenya, United Kingdom
- Producer: Ng'endo Mukii
- Genre: Animation, Documentary
- Release date: 9/1/2012
- Run time: 7 min.
Movie 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.
