Yellow Fever (2012)
• September 1st, 2012 • 0h 7min
Animation, Documentary
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Escape
Released on: 2017-04-23
Science Fiction, Animation
After crash landing on a desolate planet, a lone space explorer must find a way to make her new home...
No Voice
Released on: 2021-05-28
Documentary
She now lives many miles away from her mother, who is waiting to hear from her. It is a bittersweet,...
Making Of Castelo
Released on: 2019-10-19
Documentary
A two parts making of documentary, following José Augusto Silva and his film crew during the shootin...
Alice in Not So Wonderland
Released on: 2007-07-07
Animation
The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.
About the Hippopotamus Who Was Afraid of Inoculations
Released on: 1966-04-23
Animation
Fabulous animals bathed, rested and had fun on the summer beach of the southern town. Suddenly, the ...
The Disheveled Sparrow
Released on: 1967-04-23
Animation
According to the fairy tale of the same name, how the little sparrow Pashka, as a token of gratitude...
Allegory of Prudence
Released on: 2013-01-01
Documentary
A short film made for "Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded". A homage to Paulo Rocha and Kenji Mizoguchi, f...
I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again
Released on: 2016-10-11
Romance, Science Fiction, Animation
A transhumanist romance in the near future. A young boy of modest origins, Marcus, an H- , falls mad...
A Suitable Girl
Released on: 2017-04-22
Documentary
A Suitable Girl follows three young women in India struggling to maintain their identities and follo...
Miracles in the Sieve
Released on: 1978-04-23
Animation
A bizarre cartoon based on English nursery rhymes.
Lullaby
Released on: 1984-04-25
Animation
The cartoon is based on one of the famous Ukrainian lullabies. It tells the story of a newborn baby,...
Ossigeno
Released on: 2020-12-26
Animation
Lena is nine-year-old. One day, she spontaneously makes an act of love that will change her life. Sh...
Events Meant to Be Forgotten
Released on: 2020-06-10
Animation
Filmed on 16mm film, this visual expression is rooted in its archival materials and backed up by the...
Land Without Bread
Released on: 1933-12-01
Documentary
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Love Hotel
Released on: 2014-04-26
Documentary
Pensioners, lawyers, married couples and teenagers are all customers at the Angel Love Hotel in Osak...
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
Released on: 1896-06-30
Documentary
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
It's a Wonderful Day
Released on: 1975-04-21
Animation, Documentary
The cartoon based on the works of Alexander Pushkin was created on the basis of drawings from the ex...
The Hunters
Released on: 1977-04-20
Documentary
This film joins a hunting-party of inhabitants of the Frobisher Bay Correctional Centre. The stalkin...
New Horizons
Released on: 2015-06-30
Animation, Documentary
A brief visualisation of NASA’s historic spacecrafts Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, and Dawn, exploring ...