Animator Ng’endo Mukii talks about her use of animation and movement to challenge deep-seated perspectives.

African Design/2015/Reel № 15.001

ByNg'endo Mukii

Trailer: Ng’endo Mukii on the re-animation of indigenous people

Make. Change./Recorded 2015

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Ng'endo Mukii takes african design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in Kenya in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Ng'endo's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Animator Ng’endo Mukii talks about her use of animation and movement to challenge deep-seated perspectives.

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About the speaker

Ng'endo Mukii

Nairobi/Kenya

Ng’endo Mukii is the Kenyan artist and animator behind the critically acclaimed short film "Yellow Fever".