Reflections of Little Red Dot is an interactive archive and mixed-reality installation exploring memory, identity, and urban transformation in rapidly evolving Singapore. Named after the city-state’s once-derogatory nickname, the work reflects on what is lost when physical landscapes disappear in the name of progress.
Using a retro slide projector as its primary interface, viewers navigate a holographic archive of footage and interviews recorded during Singapore’s 50th anniversary. Through tactile slides, audiences move non-linearly across layered environments — from the historic streets of Chinatown to the island’s last surviving kampongs — encountering stories shaped by displacement, resilience, and change.
Rooted in Chloé Lee’s search for connection to her mother’s homeland, the installation blends archival film, trace drawings, and spatialized sound to evoke the sensation of a culture in transition. As viewers activate the projector, a chorus of voices across generations emerges, revealing the fragile coexistence of a futuristic city and a vanishing past.
Developer: Lucas Martinic
XR Development & System Architect: Lucas Martinic
Cinematographer
Chloé Lee
Sound
Chloé Lee
Lucas Martinic
Evan Devitto
Production
Present Futures (DE)
Trailer and photos
Prix du jury, SXSW, 2025, us
Prix Reflect d'Or du meilleur film immersif, Festival international du film de Genève, 2025, ch
Chloé Lee
Chloé Lee is a Chinese-American interdisciplinary artist and the artistic director and co-founder of the Berlin-based immersive studio Present Futures. Her practice examines the intersection of embodiment and memory through film, haptics, and extended reality (XR), creating place-based installations that navigate personal and collective histories, realities, and futures. Her works include Inter(mediate) Spaces, the Fulbright-supported Temporal World (SXSW 2023), and Reflections of Little Red Dot (SXSW Jury Award, Venice Immersive 2025).
