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.
Known for
CameraBirthday
May 2, 1952Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
132Place of birth
Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaAlso known as
Ho Fung To, Kefeng Du, Chris Doyle, 杜可風, 크리스토퍼 도일, 杜可风Cast credits
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
JeremyTwelve Twenty
Taxi Driver / CaptainBehind the Blur
In the Mood for Doyle
HimselfWind
HimselfReflections of Lady in the Water
Family Day
TouristMcDull, the Alumni
BBQ cookA Moment in Time
Parts Unknown: Hong Kong
HimselfParanoid Park
Uncle TommyMaking Paranoid Park
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
SelfIron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
SelfThe Land of the Brave
Australian Man (Cameo)Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Self - Guest / Cinematographer (archive footage)Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema
Crew credits
Hero
Director of PhotographyIn the Mood for Love
Director of Photography2046
Director of PhotographyParanoid Park
Director of PhotographyParis Je T'aime
Director, WriterChungking Express
Director of PhotographyFallen Angels
Director of PhotographyPsycho
Director of PhotographyLast Life in the Universe
Director of PhotographyAway with Words
Director, Writer, Director of PhotographyThe Quiet American
Director of PhotographyDumplings
Director of PhotographyRabbit-Proof Fence
Director of PhotographyOndine
Director of PhotographyEros
Director of PhotographyHappy Together
Director of PhotographyUnderwater Love
Director of PhotographyLove for Life
Director of PhotographyBuenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together'
Director of PhotographyWarsaw Dark
DirectorBurning Snow
Director of Photography