{"id":2139827,"date":"2026-09-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2139827"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:00:00","slug":"black-sunflowers-the-rave-doc-that-became-a-portrait-of-wartime-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2139827","title":{"rendered":"Black Sunflowers: The rave doc that became a portrait of wartime Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/105-0-2383-1589\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/3\/1453532.png&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/music\/article\/70928\/1\/black-sunflowers-warehouse-rave-scene-kyiv-film-ukraine-lost-youth-war\" data-article-id=\"70928\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img no-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.89\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 4.52.50\u202fpm\" class=\"img\" height=\"1589\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/3\/1453532.png\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-09-11T14:00:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"11 September 2026\"><span class=\"month\">September<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"11\">11,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - music\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>Black Sunflowers: The rave doc that became a portrait of <span class=\"nowrap\">wartime Ukraine<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>Starting in Kyiv\u2019s warehouse rave scene, James Marcus Haney\u2019s Black Sunflowers follows a generation of young Ukrainians forced to grow up <span class=\"nowrap\">under war<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-09-11T14:00:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"11 September 2026\"><span class=\"month\">September<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"11\">11,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-09-11T14:00:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"11 September 2026\"><span class=\"month\">September<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"11\">11,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/solomonpacemccarrick\"><br \/>\nSolomon PM<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cA couple of images coming out of Vietnam really helped change the course of public opinion about the war,\u201d says music video and feature-film director<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marcushaney\/?hl=en\"> James Marcus Haney<\/a>. \u201cNow you have so many gnarly images coming out of Ukraine every day, sitting next to pictures of cool recipes, and Jeffrey the raccoon or whatever his name is. It becomes nothing. If Kyiv gets enough missiles into it, maybe it\u2019ll be a headline. But do those headlines register anymore? Probably not.\u201d That harsh reality became the driving force behind Haney\u2019s new documentary, <em>Black Sunflowers<\/em>, which follows a cross-section of young Ukrainians whose adolescence has been consumed by war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The story started four years ago, just weeks after Russia\u2019s initial invasion of Ukraine. Haney \u2013 who previously worked in the music industry and as the tour photographer for Mumford and Sons \u2013 found himself in Kyiv on a photography dispatch from NGO Warchild<\/span><em><span>. <\/span><\/em><span>It just so happened that Haney\u2019s translator on that trip was also a dedicated techno raver in the city. \u201cI was like, \u2018What\u2019s happening in the rave world? Is that life being lived still? How is it being lived?\u2019,\u201d recalls Haney. \u201cThat was the original seed question that started this whole project off.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Black Sunflowers <\/span><\/em><span>charts Haney\u2019s trips to the region over the following four years, initially focused on Kyiv\u2019s warehouse rave scene (which, in reality, was actually day parties to get around curfew restrictions) but gradually evolving into a chilling portrait of people aged under 22 in the region. The film is told in a series of parallel threads: a draft-dodger racing his car on the outskirts of the city; a boyfriend pleading with his girlfriend not to join the army; a soldier raving while he rehabilitates his amputated leg; and so on. Each attempt to navigate the strange reality of wartime existence in the best way that they can.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"9df106bd-6be8-4871-b488-b4c000d025e6\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/3\/1453530.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.67\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BS_P1_2000\" class=\"img\" height=\"2963\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/3\/1453530.jpg\" width=\"2000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Black Sunflowers poster<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cYou have an entire generation who, at the beginning of COVID, were basically children, and the pandemic took away the years when their adolescence is meant to take place,\u201d explains Haney of his decision to focus explicitly on young people in the film. \u201cThen they get out of COVID and Russia invades, so they go straight to adults overnight. Immediately they\u2019re forced to choose between a rifle, a tourniquet, or shame.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This idea of lost adolescence also lends the film its name. Sunflowers are the national symbol of Ukraine \u2013 with the flag itself, stories tell, representing a field of sunflowers under a blue sky \u2013 and, in peacetime, sunflower seeds and oil were one of the region\u2019s biggest exports. Post-invasion, however, these fields of yellow and green have been peppered with Russian mines, preventing farmers from harvesting their crops and leaving them to turn black on the stalk. Quite literally, a generation dead in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But <\/span><em><span>Black Sunflower<\/span><\/em><span>\u2019s focus on young people also performs a second function \u2013 it\u2019s profoundly relatable. \u201cSpeaking to these young people I was like, \u2018Damn, they\u2019re just like me\u2019; they listen to the same music, and they\u2019re more up on American memes than I\u2019ll ever be in my life,\u201d says Haney. \u201cBut then they\u2019re suddenly putting on fatigues and helmets and killing Russians. That age range \u2013 18 to 24 \u2013 was such a definitive time of my life. This film needs to put foreigners in their shoes, have this reflection of \u2018Oh, wow, that\u2019s us\u2019, because the news outlets aren\u2019t doing that.\u201d A particular low point in the film comes with the broadcast of Ukrainian President Zelensky\u2019s visit to the Oval Office in early 2025, where JD Vance and Trump roundly humiliate him in front of a global audience. \u201cThe world\u2019s forgotten about Ukraine,\u201d Haney concludes solemnly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"7517e338-8e04-4fef-92d7-b4c000d25675\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/3\/1453533.png\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.89\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 4.54.52\u202fpm\" class=\"img\" height=\"1590\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/3\/1453533.png\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Black Sunflowers still<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Indeed, beneath its rich storytelling, above all, <\/span><em><span>Black Sunflowers<\/span><\/em><span> is intended to motivate action. It\u2019s this value that has led Haney to assemble a star-studded cast of musical collaborators for the film\u2019s soundtrack (including Fred Again.. and Brian Eno, Sega Bodega, Aphex Twin, Idles and more), as well as executive production from three-time Oscar winner Sean Penn. \u201cHe\u2019s been heroic,\u201d Haney gushes of Penn\u2019s involvement. \u201cHe\u2019s been to Ukraine 11 times since the full-scale invasion, and was given the highest national honour by Zelensky just one month ago. We managed to get the film in front of him and he just said, \u2018Whatever I can do to help, let me know\u2019. He\u2019s been able to knock down so many barriers we couldn\u2019t get through.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Haney\u2019s tireless dedication to the Ukrainian cause seems to at least partly emerge from the sheer destruction he\u2019s witnessed on the front line these past few years \u2013 but one memory stands out above all. It took place after a nail-biting film scene in which Haney finds himself in a bunker with four Ukrainian soldiers, hunkered down under heavy Russian bombardment. At some point, they begin watching a six-month-old iPhone video depicting their squad celebrating a successful tour over dinner, but, perplexingly, Haney\u2019s bunker mates looked sad. \u201cSuddenly it dawned on me and I asked, \u2018How many of you are still active now?\u2019,\u201d Haney recalls. \u201cThey responded ten \u2013 not six months later, out of the 70 in that video, <\/span>60 of those soldiers were either dead or wounded. That really fucked me up. It felt like they were simply in a mode of: kill as many Russians before they get killed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Having come to personally identify with the film\u2019s fledgling characters and watch them dance so close to the line across its two hour runtime, then, the natural question is: where are they now? \u201cIt\u2019s funny, when we started screening the film for close friends, everyone said, \u2018You gotta put an update at the end of the film!\u2019,\u201d responds Haney. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018This is the update!\u2019 Everyone\u2019s in the same shithole. The only update is Sophia did join the third brigade against her boyfriend\u2019s wishes. Everyone else is still stuck in this pattern of life.\u201d<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span>Black Sunflowers <\/span><em><span>debuts at Toronto International Film festival today. 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Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cA couple of images coming out of Vietnam really helped change the course of public opinion about the war,\u201d says music video and feature-film director<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marcushaney\/?hl=en\"> James Marcus Haney<\/a>. \u201cNow you have so many gnarly images coming out of Ukraine every day, sitting next to pictures of cool recipes, and Jeffrey the raccoon or whatever his name is. It becomes nothing. If Kyiv gets enough missiles into it, maybe it\u2019ll be a headline. But do those headlines register anymore? Probably not.\u201d That harsh reality became the driving force behind Haney\u2019s new documentary, <em>Black Sunflowers<\/em>, which follows a cross-section of young Ukrainians whose adolescence has been consumed by war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The story started four years ago, just weeks after Russia\u2019s initial invasion of Ukraine. Haney \u2013 who previously worked in the music industry and as the tour photographer for Mumford and Sons \u2013 found himself in Kyiv on a photography dispatch from NGO Warchild<\/span><em><span>. <\/span><\/em><span>It just so happened that Haney\u2019s translator on that trip was also a dedicated techno raver in the city. \u201cI was like, \u2018What\u2019s happening in the rave world? Is that life being lived still? How is it being lived?\u2019,\u201d recalls Haney. \u201cThat was the original seed question that started this whole project off.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Black Sunflowers <\/span><\/em><span>charts Haney\u2019s trips to the region over the following four years, initially focused on Kyiv\u2019s warehouse rave scene (which, in reality, was actually day parties to get around curfew restrictions) but gradually evolving into a chilling portrait of people aged under 22 in the region. The film is told in a series of parallel threads: a draft-dodger racing his car on the outskirts of the city; a boyfriend pleading with his girlfriend not to join the army; a soldier raving while he rehabilitates his amputated leg; and so on. Each attempt to navigate the strange reality of wartime existence in the best way that they can.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"9df106bd-6be8-4871-b488-b4c000d025e6\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/3\/1453530.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.67\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BS_P1_2000\" class=\"img\" height=\"2963\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/3\/1453530.jpg\" width=\"2000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Black Sunflowers poster<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cYou have an entire generation who, at the beginning of COVID, were basically children, and the pandemic took away the years when their adolescence is meant to take place,\u201d explains Haney of his decision to focus explicitly on young people in the film. \u201cThen they get out of COVID and Russia invades, so they go straight to adults overnight. Immediately they\u2019re forced to choose between a rifle, a tourniquet, or shame.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This idea of lost adolescence also lends the film its name. Sunflowers are the national symbol of Ukraine \u2013 with the flag itself, stories tell, representing a field of sunflowers under a blue sky \u2013 and, in peacetime, sunflower seeds and oil were one of the region\u2019s biggest exports. Post-invasion, however, these fields of yellow and green have been peppered with Russian mines, preventing farmers from harvesting their crops and leaving them to turn black on the stalk. Quite literally, a generation dead in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But <\/span><em><span>Black Sunflower<\/span><\/em><span>\u2019s focus on young people also performs a second function \u2013 it\u2019s profoundly relatable. \u201cSpeaking to these young people I was like, \u2018Damn, they\u2019re just like me\u2019; they listen to the same music, and they\u2019re more up on American memes than I\u2019ll ever be in my life,\u201d says Haney. \u201cBut then they\u2019re suddenly putting on fatigues and helmets and killing Russians. That age range \u2013 18 to 24 \u2013 was such a definitive time of my life. This film needs to put foreigners in their shoes, have this reflection of \u2018Oh, wow, that\u2019s us\u2019, because the news outlets aren\u2019t doing that.\u201d A particular low point in the film comes with the broadcast of Ukrainian President Zelensky\u2019s visit to the Oval Office in early 2025, where JD Vance and Trump roundly humiliate him in front of a global audience. \u201cThe world\u2019s forgotten about Ukraine,\u201d Haney concludes solemnly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"7517e338-8e04-4fef-92d7-b4c000d25675\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/3\/1453533.png\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.89\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 4.54.52\u202fpm\" class=\"img\" height=\"1590\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1450\/3\/1453533.png\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Black Sunflowers still<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Indeed, beneath its rich storytelling, above all, <\/span><em><span>Black Sunflowers<\/span><\/em><span> is intended to motivate action. It\u2019s this value that has led Haney to assemble a star-studded cast of musical collaborators for the film\u2019s soundtrack (including Fred Again.. and Brian Eno, Sega Bodega, Aphex Twin, Idles and more), as well as executive production from three-time Oscar winner Sean Penn. \u201cHe\u2019s been heroic,\u201d Haney gushes of Penn\u2019s involvement. \u201cHe\u2019s been to Ukraine 11 times since the full-scale invasion, and was given the highest national honour by Zelensky just one month ago. We managed to get the film in front of him and he just said, \u2018Whatever I can do to help, let me know\u2019. He\u2019s been able to knock down so many barriers we couldn\u2019t get through.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Haney\u2019s tireless dedication to the Ukrainian cause seems to at least partly emerge from the sheer destruction he\u2019s witnessed on the front line these past few years \u2013 but one memory stands out above all. It took place after a nail-biting film scene in which Haney finds himself in a bunker with four Ukrainian soldiers, hunkered down under heavy Russian bombardment. At some point, they begin watching a six-month-old iPhone video depicting their squad celebrating a successful tour over dinner, but, perplexingly, Haney\u2019s bunker mates looked sad. \u201cSuddenly it dawned on me and I asked, \u2018How many of you are still active now?\u2019,\u201d Haney recalls. \u201cThey responded ten \u2013 not six months later, out of the 70 in that video, <\/span>60 of those soldiers were either dead or wounded. That really fucked me up. It felt like they were simply in a mode of: kill as many Russians before they get killed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Having come to personally identify with the film\u2019s fledgling characters and watch them dance so close to the line across its two hour runtime, then, the natural question is: where are they now? \u201cIt\u2019s funny, when we started screening the film for close friends, everyone said, \u2018You gotta put an update at the end of the film!\u2019,\u201d responds Haney. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018This is the update!\u2019 Everyone\u2019s in the same shithole. The only update is Sophia did join the third brigade against her boyfriend\u2019s wishes. Everyone else is still stuck in this pattern of life.\u201d<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span>Black Sunflowers <\/span><em><span>debuts at Toronto International Film festival today. 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