Yellow Fever

What does beauty look like In this awardwinning short Kenyan filmmaker Ngendo 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 mediacreated ideals on African womens perceptions of themselves From hairstraightening to skinlightening YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable literally in their own skin