Composition commission for Danae Io’s ‘Recording Angel’. The film was on view at Akwa Ibom gallery and Athens Avant Garde Film Festival (2025).

Radio voice-over:  Marilena Maragou

The film is supported by the Mondriaan Fund and Amarte. The exhibition is supported by Carved to Flow Foundation and CBK Rotterdam.

Recording Angel, the title of both Danae Io's new film and the exhibition at Akwa Ibom in which it premieres, borrows from the symbolic figure found in religious and literary traditions—a celestial scribe believed to record each person's deeds, thoughts, and words. The film unfolds through the mirrors of a moving car in Thebes and the surrounding countryside, capturing the landscape in passing reflections—sidelong, fragmented, and fleeting. As a radio program introduces the 19th-century watercolours and writings of lawyer and draughtsman James Skene, the film draws a quiet parallel between past and present acts of observation.

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