Mini-Documentary On Ukraine’s Underground Techno Scene

The 2014 revolution brought Kyiv’s nightlife to a complete standstill. As protests turned into riots, and government security forces opened fire on protestors, the country fell into crisis.

But out of the ashes of the revolution has risen a new generation. Slava Lepsheev, who’d lost his job because of the financial crisis triggered by the war, had had enough and started Cxema, a raw, hard, and hypnotic Techno rave that he took to whatever semi-legal venue he could set a sound system up in.

So together with Slava and the city’s brightest young lights, we followed young Kyiv as they prepared for a night at Cxema, from building the venue to watching the sunrise break.