Christopher Doyle
Camera
Born 1952-05-02
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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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.
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Filmography
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Other credits
51 credits
Morte Cucina
In the Mood for Love
Hero
Chungking Express
Fallen Angels
Happy Together
Psycho
Lady in the Water
Days of Being Wild
Eros
2046
Ashes of Time
The Quiet American
Passion Play
Dumplings
Irma Vep
Ondine
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Endless Poetry
The White Countess
Three... Extremes
Paranoid Park
Magic Magic
Return Engagement
Perhaps Love
Temptress Moon
The Hand
Liberty Heights
Three
Made
The Limits of Control
Ocean Heaven
Rabbit Horror
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
Port of Call
American Dreams in China
First Love: The Litter on the Breeze
Last Life in the Universe
Red Lotus Society
My Nostalgia, My Songs
Red Rose White Rose
Tezuka's Barbara
Burning Snow
That Day, on the Beach
Underwater Love
Tri-Star
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
Motel Cactus
Love After Love
Downloading Nancy
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Acting
10 credits
The Culture Show
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
Paranoid Park
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Chinese Box
1:99 Shorts
My Nostalgia, My Songs
McDull, the Alumni
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
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Directing
3 credits
Writing
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