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.
Crew
Hero
Director of Photography
2046
Director of Photography
In the Mood for Love
Director of Photography
Paranoid Park
Director of Photography
Paris Je T'aime
Director, Writer
Fallen Angels
Director of Photography
Psycho
Director of Photography
Chungking Express
Director of Photography
Last Life in the Universe
Director of Photography
The Quiet American
Director of Photography
Away with Words
Writer, Director, Director of Photography
Dumplings
Director of Photography
Three: Going Home
Director of Photography
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Director of Photography
The Star
Director of Photography
Ondine
Director of Photography
Eros
Director of Photography
Happy Together
Director of Photography
Underwater Love
Director of Photography
Love for Life
Director of Photography
Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together'
Director of Photography
The Hand
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Burning Snow
Director of Photography
American Dreams in China
Director of Photography
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
Director of Photography
Temptress Moon
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The Limits of Control
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Three... Extremes
Director of Photography
Green Tea
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Three
Director of Photography
Tri-Star
Director of Photography
Days of Being Wild
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Invisible Waves
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First Love: The Litter on the Breeze
Director of Photography
Bends
Director of Photography
Ashes of Time
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Ocean Heaven
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Motel Cactus
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Lady in the Water
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Red Lotus Society
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Red Rose White Rose
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I Am Sorry
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Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
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Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
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That Day, on the Beach
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Return Engagement
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Perhaps Love
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4 Faces of Eve
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Mary from Beijing
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The Peony Pavilion
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wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net
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Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her
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Made
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To Heaven, to Gather
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Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
Director of Photography
A Good Story
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Magic Magic
Director of Photography
Ah Fu
Director of Photography
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Passion Play
Director of Photography
Soul
Director of Photography
Showtime
Director of Photography
Downloading Nancy
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Port of Call
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The White Girl
Writer, Director, Director of Photography
I Am Belfast
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Stockholm, My Love
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Wind
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Out of the Blue
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Fundamentally Happy
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The White Countess
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The Boat-Burning Festival
Cinematography
You Mean The World To Me
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Endless Poetry
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M on the Bund
Executive Producer
Hunters in the Dark
Director of Photography
Love Only
Cinematography, Director
Late in Summer
Director of Photography
Beijing, New York
Director of Photography
Morte Cucina
Cinematography
Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World
Director
Christine (Film of Her)
Director
Twelve Twenty
Cinematography
Blue Sky Bones
Cinematography
Rabbit Horror
Director of Photography
Enishi: The Bride of Izumo
Cinematography
Chinese Box
Second Unit Director of Photography
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
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Liberty Heights
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Noir et blanc
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Love After Love
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Human Flow
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Human Flowers
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In the Mood for Love 2001
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Tezuka's Barbara
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The Boat Burning Festival+
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