Inde Est. Blackberry painting

Inde Est is the title of the artistic contribution presented by cinema critic and situationist theorist Enrico Ghezzi at the ancient Church of San Ludovico in Venice for the third Internet Pavilion: The Unconnected (2013). Inspired by the Latin phrase fugit hora, hoc quod loquor inde est [time flees, and what I am saying already belongs to it] from Persius’s fifth Satire, Ghezzi’s durational performance consisted in a 8-hour mute speech that evoked the out-of-sync effect typical of his monologues for Fuori Orario [after hours], a radical overnight broadcast on avant-garde cinema airing on the Italian national TV since 1988. Miltos Manetas celebrates this cult figure of Italian television, filming him within the space of the Internet Pavilion. His portrait takes the form of a BlackBerry Painting, a simultaneous act of recording and painting that has accompanied Manetas’s practice since his early use of smartphones.

Inde est
Mimesis of silence, mimicry of absence. Silent chatter.
The passion of saying everything within the (non)common space between art and cinema. The body follows the reading of silence. The voice, bare, without timbre, without volume. The aspect of the voice in a waiting room. (The voice said: you have seen nothing yet!)
A mask without a mask, the soundless voice propagates nothing, yet it spreads into the void that awaits and welcomes it without limits.
Enrico Ghezzi declares every nothing
(hoc quod loquor inde est)

This screening is part of SWS the second chapter of the film program TUTTAUNANOTTE, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, and unfolding in four chapters between November 1, 2025 and December 26, 2025, with the films of each chapter streaming for two weeks.

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