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The artist works with an alteration of the documentary format; a symbiosis of hood and documentary, an attempt to develop a new genre, the ‘hoodumentary’. Animated logotypes, his own soundtrack and aesthetics that draw inspiration from the world of Hip Hop and R’n’B and also references to
contemporary internet culture are all part of the artist’s output. Ilja Karilampi’s impressions are joined together in this video piece h00dumentary, a 22 minute essayistic collage of found footage, researched material and animated graphics. A short film with guns and one pair of sunglasses, made by the artist at the age of 12 at Studiegången, is also incorporated in ‘hoodumentary’s’ somewhat drifting picture.