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Ng'endo Mukii

Catalogue credits include Enkai, Yellow Fever, This Migrant Business. Roles and availability retain the source’s verification status.

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Enkai

Living with her mother in a home that moves through space, Enkai longs for more time together. Her mother, the deity Shiro, is exhausted by efforts to protect the Earth, leaving Enkai to uncover her own creative powers.

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Nairobi Berries

An immersive 360-degree meditation on Nairobi uses poetic voice-over, live-action city spaces and layered animation to explore scarcity, social division, desire and the elusive promises of urban life.

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This Migrant Business

An animated documentary exposes the cyclical market that enables and exploits African migrants travelling toward Europe and the Middle East, told from perspectives that implicate the systems profiting from their vulnerability.

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Yellow Fever

Through interviews with her family, dance and experimental animation, Kenyan filmmaker Ng'endo Mukii traces the pressures that globalised beauty standards impose on African women and on perceptions of skin colour.