Christopher Doyle
Camera
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.
Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken
as Himself
Age 48 (now 74)
Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World
In the Mood for Love 2001
Director of Photography
Age 72 (now 74)
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Director of Photography
Age 67 (now 74)
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous
Director of Photography
Age 63 (now 74) Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous
Director
Age 63 (now 74) Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous
Writer
Age 63 (now 74)
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
Director of Photography
Age 62 (now 74)Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World
Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World
Director
Age 62 (now 74)
Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema
as Self
Age 58 (now 74)
Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her
Director of Photography
Age 53 (now 74)
Last Life in the Universe
Director of Photography
Age 51 (now 74)
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
as Self
Age 49 (now 74)
Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken
as Himself
Age 48 (now 74)
Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together'
Director of Photography
Age 46 (now 74)
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
Director of Photography
Age 46 (now 74)
First Love: The Litter on the Breeze
Director of Photography
Age 45 (now 74)
Yesterday You, Yesterday Me
as Yeung Seng Bo at 33 (Narrator)
Age 45 (now 74)
Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
Director of Photography
Age 39 (now 74)
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
Director of Photography
Age 36 (now 74)
Archive / Preserving Taiwan’s Historic Architecture
Cinematography
Age 27 (now 74)
Christopher Doyle in Conversation: Days of Being Wild
as Himself
Gathering insights...
Also Known As
Ho Fung To, Kefeng Du, Chris Doyle, 杜可風, 크리스토퍼 도일, 杜可风
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