Medellin (31 December 2025)
El Hueco Kurt Heuvens

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Video ID: Kurt Heuvens - El Hueco
Captured early in 2025, this walk takes us through El Hueco, the central market district of Medellin. The soundscape by Colombian-born, Europe-raised contributor Sxmbra features a collaged selection of traditional and deconstructed music from the latin online diaspora, blending in and out of the field-recorded ambience. 

The chaos of traffic, commerce, and cheap goods in overwhelming quantities are scaffolded against a concrete urban megastructure, partially overgrown by plants and scattered waste. To us, this meditative motion-painting hints at a tropical realism of the 21st century, dense in collisions and contradictions with an inherent, transient and tragic beauty.
Remote Control is a media channel providing an audiovisual reality check with subjective POV walks through cities, landscapes, and social settings. It seeks to offer feeling-based confrontations with what is real today. Chronicling the wastelands of Late Capitalism, this is an aesthetic enquiry into the pain points of civilization. Remote Control posits that damage, grief, restoration and response are consecutive phases of a cycle. Be walking.