I have a piece in the New York Times as part of a celebration of the tenth anniversary of gay marriage. This piece appears under my given name, Marina. Happy Pride!!!
EZTV Avant Video: Works by Video Innovators
March 31, 2025 7:30PM
Los Angeles Filmforum, Elizabeth Purchell, and Hollywood Entertainment present EZTV Avant Video: Works by Video Innovators, part of Video Capital of the World: 45 Years of EZTV in L.A. The program will be followed by a panel with EZTV Director / Founding Member Michael J. Masucci and videomakers Nina Rota and James Williams moderated by Programmer/historian Elizabeth Purchell.
In person: EZTV Director / Founding Member Michael J. Masucci and videomakers Nina Rota and James Williams
Jewels of Elul
I have been invited by Craig Taubman to write a Jewel of Elul for 2024. Elul is the month before the Jewish Holy Days—a time of growth and discovery—and one short Jewel of Elul is published online for each of the 29 days of Elul. The year’s question is If Not Now, When? Thank you so much to Craig for this lovely invitation and for his many years of work with the Pico Union Project. Thank you also to my bonus son Aaron Greenberg for mentioning me to Craig. Here is my Jewel of Elul.
Now That You’re Gone
Sara Flint Greenberg
02/11/56 — 11/18/22
EZTV 42: Some Old, Some New
December 9, 2021
7:30 PM
18th Street Arts Center (Olympic Campus)
1639 18th Street, Santa Monica
In celebration of 42 years of digital, performance and video arts, EZTV (www.eztvmuseum.com), LA’s pioneering community-based independent artist-driven and run organization, presents a special in-person and via Zoom one-night event of screenings, visual art, and spoken word.
Chiwan Choi, Chris Germano, EZTV, Kate Crash, Kate Johnson, Melora Waters, Michael J. Masucci, Nina Rota, S. Pearl Sharpe, Victor Acevedo, video art, Writ Large Press
Beginning with a preshow including classic EZTV videos with the psychedelic philosopher Dr. Timothy Leary (1920-96), and beat poet Allen Ginsburg (1926-97), early digital animation by Shelly Lake, and featuring video projections by Victor Acevedo, the evening will then unfold into a glimpse of the wide range of artists which work with or have worked with this seminal Los Angeles alternative art space.
In addition to recognition of our past four decades, with some of our archive, including short videos by EZTV founder John Dorr (1947-1993) and EZTV’s long-standing co-director Kate Johnson (1969-2020), we will be honoring the recently deceased early curator of digital art, and Co-founder of EZTV’s CyberSpace Gallery, Patric Prince (1942-2021).
WCCW Reading Series: Work & Labor
The WCCW Reading Series is a quarterly literary reading series organized by Bridgette Bianca and Nina Rota. The readings are thematically linked with WCCW programming which, for summer 2019, is the idea of work & labor in all of its possible meanings.
Please join us on Thursday, September 12 at 7:30pm, as we welcome these amazing writers and performers to the Women’s Center for Creative Work.
Sehba Sarwar
Irene Sanchez
Camari Carter-Hawkins
Miya King
Amoni Thompson-Jones
WCCW Reading Series: Critical Intuition
“Tapping into the erotic requires critical intuition — our capacities for listening and awareness and feeling.”–Audre Lorde
Join these four powerful writers, Jessica Gallion,
WORKSHOP: Practice Writing Without Fear With Nina Rota and Ellen Krout-Hasegawa
We use short meditations, free writing, and word exercises to help creative people develop ways of diving into the stream of consciousness without sinking. We will focus on exercises to get our mind and body working together in a smooth flow without being interrupted by our negative inner voices and the negative voices which surround us. This workshop is for writers and anyone else who is creative—visual artists, video bloggers, designers—anyone using the creative process.
Date And Time: Sat, April 6, 2019, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Location: 1888 Center, 115 North Orange Street, Orange, California 92866
The cost of the workshop is $20. Please purchase tickets here.
Nina Rota is a writer and filmmaker. Her writing can be found in Witness Magazine, Entropy, and Red Fez among others. Her short films have appeared in Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time project and Anthology Film Archives. She is currently working on a book of essays titled Walls Crumble Before Me…
Ellen Krout-Hasegawa is a gender-queer artist, writer and native Angeleno. For more than a dozen years at the LA Weekly she wrote a plethora on books, theater, music and good times. Her writing has appeared in the LA Times, X-Tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, and Hers 2: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbians. Currently, she can be found with some frequency at the Tom of Finland Foundation, known only as “Owen.”
WCCW Reading Series: UNSCHOOLING
It’s time to be unschooled! Pleases come and see this strong group of performers & writers at Women’s Center for Creative Work on Thurs. Nov. 8@7:30pm: Frankie Norstad, Amina Cain, Laura Vena & Adrienne Walser. Yes, of course there will be wine and snacks!
