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ANOTHER DAY OF DEPRESSION IN KOWLOON is a virtual study and a digital portrait of Hong Kong as seen through the lens of contemporary popular culture incarnated in the forms of video game and screen media Using the map KOWLOON from the popular video game CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS 2010 as a field of study the filmmaker conducted a yearlong virtual fieldwork playing observing and documenting Hong Kong as simulated in the video game world ANOTHER turns the violent firstperson shooter into a series of vacant uncanny and yet meditative tableaux unearthing a formal poetry that is often overlooked during the original gameplay It combines methodologies from both the observational and assemblage film traditions in raising questions about cultural representations in contemporary popular media while at the same time creating evocative metaphors for a postcolonial Hong Kong through the reworking of media materials