Nova '78

Doc Fortnight 2026 At MoMA Lots of unearthed footage that Aaron Brookner found and put together (with co-director Rodrigo Areias). Aaron is the nephew of Howard Brookner who did the William S. Burroughs documentary. In the film, there are lots of people you’ll recognize…

Allison M. 🌱

Counterculture!!!! Many yearn for it today but do any of us truly know what it entails? NOVA ‘78 is a clear eyed reminder of what art was like before being brutally dissected by our over connected, paranoid present of hyper-consumption. No idea how healing it would be to…

Phil

If you look up ‘cool’ in the dictionary, it’s a picture of Patti Smith at William Burroughs’s Nova Convention holding a clarinet and a cigarette in the same hand.

Lillian Crawford

This felt like a strange drift through time that feels less like a narrative and more like a séance. Nova 78 moves through archival textures and reconstructed memory, blurring documentation with hallucination. What I appreciated so much is the process behind it. The film…

karim

And they say white people have no culture 🥴

Marcel Tabuteau

я и мои воук друзья каждый день если бы мы не были заложниками к*питализма (не работали) patti smith the woman you are

maria

i just know it smelt crazy in there

jacinthe

Я улетела в стратосферу из-за Филипа Гласса и Патти Смит. В очередной раз вспомнила, почему как больная на голову готова скупать книги серии «Альтернатива».

Mary_Torrance

вот это реально нишево

xorru