This presentation introduces the 2024 projection mapping work Chongqing Forest, which reimagines the Chongqing’s mediascape as a ‘data forest,’ exploring the dense ecology where urban history, platform aesthetics, and digital subjectivity converge. Borrowing four lines from Wong Karwai’s cinema Chungking Express (1994)—a film well known in Sinosphere for its subtle expression on the emotional alienation in modern metropolises—the 2024 work structuralizes four respective chapters according to the rearranged lines, in order to discuss the experience that is even more contemporary than what is expressed by the 1994 film, and that is theorized by this presentation as the magical synchronicity in post-1978 China—the synchronicity of modernity and postmodernity, of industrialization and post-industrialization, and of urbanization and the rise of network society. This presentation argues that the magical synchronicity could be articulated, firstly, by the textual entanglement with Chungking Express; and secondly, in the form of expanded cinema, a mixture of film and computational media.