Flamingo

Flamingo is a mockumentary video that blends real footage, factual references, imagination, and poetic analogy to reflect on the way artificial intelligence operates in 2025. Taking the flamingo as its central metaphor, the work begins from a biological fact: the bird’s vibrant pink color comes from what it consumes in its environment. From this image, the video proposes a parallel with human beings and with AI systems. Like flamingos, we are also colored by what surrounds us: by cultural images, memories, desires, collective myths, digital archives, and the invisible patterns we absorb from the world. The work creates a dialogue between Carl Jung’s idea of the collective unconscious and what could be imagined today as a collective consciousness of latent space: the immense digital field from which AI systems generate images, narratives, distortions, and hallucinations. If the collective unconscious is formed by ancestral symbols and shared psychic structures, latent space can be seen as a contemporary archive made of data, images, styles, and fragments of human production. In this sense, Flamingo portrays AI not simply as a tool, but as a strange mirror of our time: a system that feeds on what we have collectively produced and returns it to us transformed, recombined, sometimes beautiful, sometimes absurd. By mixing documentary language with fictional construction, the video embraces the ambiguity of the mockumentary form. It uses the appearance of truth to create a speculative and humorous reflection on reality, imagination, and artificial intelligence. Flamingo is therefore both a playful fable and a critical portrait of the digital present: a work about color, contamination, collective memory, and the ways in which humans and machines are shaped by what they consume.