Christopher Doyle
Christopher Doyle is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer who often works on Chinese language films. He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, as well as AFI Award for cinematography, the Golden Horse awards (four times), and Hong Kong Film Award (six times). Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers. Doyle was born in Sydney, Australia in 1952. He left his native country on a Norwegian merchant ship at the age of eighteen, after which he took on a number of odd jobs including as a Kibbutz-nick cowboy in Israel, homeopathic doctor in Thailand, and “green agriculturalist” in India work. In the late seventies, Doyle was “re-birthed” as Du Ke Feng, which means “like the wind.” Following his time as a language student in Taiwan and having found work as a photographer, he was hired as a cinematographer on Edward Yang’s That Day, on the Beach in 1983.
Since his “birth in art,” Du Ke Feng has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films. He is best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai, including Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love and 2046 (the latter of which saw Doyle walking off set mid-way through production). He has collaborated with other Chinese filmmakers on projects including Temptress Moon, Hero, Happy Together, and Dumplings. As his "alter ego" Christopher Doyle he has made more than twenty in various other languages and film cultures, working as director of photography on Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, Liberty Heights, Last Life in the Universe, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Paranoid Park, The Limits of Control.
He also wrote, shot, and directed Warsaw Dark, Away with Words starring Asano Tadanobu, and Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, an experimental portrait of three generations of Hong Kong people.[5] He is currently filming The White Girl, another tribute to his adopted hometown of Hong Kong, with co-director Jenny Suen.
On May 26, 2017 Doyle was honored during the 70th Cannes Festival with the “Pierre Angénieux ExcelLens in Cinematography” award, in tribute to his rich and influential career. The ceremony was co-hosted by filmmaker Olivier Assayas and actress Juliette Binoche, among others.
Since his “birth in art,” Du Ke Feng has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films. He is best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai, including Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love and 2046 (the latter of which saw Doyle walking off set mid-way through production). He has collaborated with other Chinese filmmakers on projects including Temptress Moon, Hero, Happy Together, and Dumplings. As his "alter ego" Christopher Doyle he has made more than twenty in various other languages and film cultures, working as director of photography on Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, Liberty Heights, Last Life in the Universe, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Paranoid Park, The Limits of Control.
He also wrote, shot, and directed Warsaw Dark, Away with Words starring Asano Tadanobu, and Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, an experimental portrait of three generations of Hong Kong people.[5] He is currently filming The White Girl, another tribute to his adopted hometown of Hong Kong, with co-director Jenny Suen.
On May 26, 2017 Doyle was honored during the 70th Cannes Festival with the “Pierre Angénieux ExcelLens in Cinematography” award, in tribute to his rich and influential career. The ceremony was co-hosted by filmmaker Olivier Assayas and actress Juliette Binoche, among others.
Known for
Just 1 Day
Love After Love
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Tezuka's Barbara
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Cuba
Parts Unknown: Hong Kong
Love Only
The White Girl
Human Flow
You Mean The World To Me
Wind
Stockholm, My Love
I Am Belfast
Endless Poetry
Enishi: The Bride of Izumo
Port of Call
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous
Fundamentally Happy
Beijing, New York
Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore
Beautiful 2014
Blue Sky Bones
Bends
Magic Magic
American Dreams in China
A Good Story
Tormented
Love for Life
Underwater Love
Passion Play
Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema
Showtime
Ocean Heaven
A Moment in Time
Ondine
The Limits of Control
Behind the Blur
Warsaw Dark
Making Paranoid Park
Downloading Nancy
In the Mood for Doyle
Paranoid Park
Reflections of Lady in the Water
Lady in the Water
Paris Je T'aime
Invisible Waves
McDull, the Alumni
Twelve Twenty
Perhaps Love
The White Countess
The Hand
Eros
The Culture Show
2046
Three... Extremes
Dumplings
Green Tea
1:99 Shorts
Last Life in the Universe
The Quiet American
Hero
Three
Going Home
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
Made
In the Mood for Love
Liberty Heights
Away with Words
Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together'
Psycho
Andromedia
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
Motorola
First Love: The Litter on the Breeze
Chinese Box
Motel Cactus
Yesterday You, Yesterday Me
Happy Together
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
4 Faces of Eve
Irma Vep
Temptress Moon
Tri-Star
Out of the Blue
The Peony Pavilion
Fallen Angels
Red Rose White Rose
Ashes of Time
Red Lotus Society
Chungking Express
Beijing Bastards
Mary from Beijing
Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
Days of Being Wild
Family Day
Return Engagement
Red Surf
Carry on Yakuza
I Am Sorry
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
I Love Mary
Burning Snow
Omega Syndrome
Soul
Noir et blanc
Ah Fu
That Day, on the Beach
The Sexy Lady Driver
The Land of the Brave
The Boat-Burning Festival
Acting
Camera
2014
Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore
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