Yellow Fever
2012-09-01 | 7 minutes
Plot Summary
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
Recommendations
-
And Then We Danced
-
Yellow Sweater
-
Pulp Fiction
-
Joker
-
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
-
Raya and the Last Dragon
-
Nomadland
-
Dunkirk
-
Deadpool & Wolverine
-
Forrest Gump
-
Parasite
-
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
-
La La Land
-
Interstellar
-
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
-
GoodFellas
-
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
-
Fight Club
-
The Menu
-
Love, Simon
Similar Movies
-
Persepolis
-
How to Cook Your Life
-
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
-
Jakub
-
The Scarecrow
-
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
-
Romie-0 and Julie-8
-
Meet My Family
-
La Cicciolina: Godmother of Scandal
-
Gone Fishing
-
Coastal
-
The Last Day of Autumn
-
Twenty Years After
-
Into Our Own Hands
-
The Decent One
-
The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper
-
The Joys and Sorrows of Young Yuguo
-
Almost Home
-
Superman 75
-
The Unfinished Journey