An article at Filmmaker.com features an interview with the directors of “The Nova Convention… a Free Artistic Experiment," a film featuring "lost" footage, here are the opening sentences:
"Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias’s Nova ’78 centers around the Nova Convention, a late ’70s avant-garde extravaganza that took place at NYC’s now defunct Entermedia Theater (Second Avenue and 12th Street) in honor of William S. Burroughs’s return to the U.S. after living more than 20 years abroad. It was also a great excuse to gather a who’s who roster of counterculture icons to perform in the presence of the postmodern wordsmith who’d profoundly impacted them all. That would include Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye, Laurie Anderson and Julia Heyward, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass, John Cage, Jackie Curtis, Robert Anton Wilson, Terry Southern, Frank Zappa and the list goes on. Quite the happening indeed!"
I don't know if RAW is in the film; the "Bob Wilson" referred to in the interview is the famous director, not RAW. I searched for the title at justwatch.com and couldn't find any information on how to see this thing, perhaps it will be available for streaming at some point.
Hat tip: Nicholas Helweg-Larsen.
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