Ng'endo Mukii
OCT - DEC 2018
Ng'endo Mukii
her documentary-animation exploring Western influences on African women's ideals of beauty.
Her work focuses on relationships, the separation between perception and reality, and
the use of moving image to represent unspoken truths. At the prestigious Design Indaba
conference (2015), she presented her talk, ‘Film Taxidermy and Re-Animation,’
proposing the use of animation as a means of re-humanizing the ‘indigenous’ image.
Ng’endo is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (‘06), and holds a Master
of Arts in Animation from the Royal College of Art (‘12). She is a Berlinale Talents
Alumni (’14, ’15), a Design Indaba 2015 keynote speaker, and participated in the
Grafikens Hus Artist’s residency (in partnership with Iaspis) in 2015.
Her films have won numerous awards, including Silver Hugo for Best Animated Short at
the Chicago International Film Festival, and Best Short Film at the Africa Magic
Viewers’ Choice Awards. She works in Nairobi as an independent filmmaker.