Subjectivity and imbrication of languages in Yellow Fever, short film by Ng’endo Mukii

Abstract

In a six-minute video, Yellow Fever, the Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii interweaves memory and activism, making a forceful libel on the violence of imposing a beauty defined by the Western-white mold. Here, we partially move this central axis that mobilizes the work (skin and race), focusing our discussion on the creative process of this audiovisual. What interests us is to problematize the narrative construction in a key that discusses, besides the biographical aspects that underlie the work, also the overlapping of languages, considered under the horizon of the intertwining of art and technology, an option that cuts across the conceptions of gender. A process whose start is the subjectivity that is positioned in the territory of the uprising, the nonconformity and the assumption of the protagonism of the audiovisual in the globalized media spectrum.