Yellow Fever
Director:
Ng’endo Mukii
Duration:
7 minutes
Year:
2012
Category:
Short documentary film
Synopsis
An exploration of ‘feeling a little bit uncomfortable.’ I am interested in the concept of skin and race, and what they imply; in the ideas and theories sown into our flesh that change with the arc of time. In my film, I focus on African women’s self-image, through memories and interviews; using mixed media to describe our almost schizophrenic pursuit of globalised beauty.
Country & Language:
Kenya
English
Subtitled in English
Production:
Ng’endo Studios
Ng’endo Mukii
Ng’endo Mukii is an award-winning film director most well known for ‘Yellow Fever,’ her documentary-animation exploring Western influences on African women’s ideals of beauty. At the prestigious Design Indaba conference she presented her talk, ‘Film Taxidermy and Re-Animation,’ proposing the use of animation as a means of re-humanizing the ‘indigenous’ image; a people whose ‘real’ image is burdened with stereotypes of being the ‘Other.’ Ng’endo is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and holds a Master of Arts in Animation from the Royal College of Art. She is an alumni of the beautiful Berlinale Talents, the distinguished Urucu Media REALNESS Screenwriter’s Residency, and the incredible Goethe Institute Bahia Vila Sul artists’ residency. She is a Professor of the Practice at SMFA at TUFTS University in Boston, a writer on Netflix first African animated series, Supa Team 4. She is the writer-director of Enkai, an episode on the Disney+ animated anthology, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire.
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