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.
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
(Jeremy)
Idle Dream
Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema
(Self)
Andromedia
(Sakkaa / Soccer)
Carry on Yakuza
(Fake arms dealer)
Showtime
1:99 Shorts
(10))
Twelve Twenty
(Taxi Driver / Captain)
Behind the Blur
Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken
(Himself)
Yesterday You, Yesterday Me
(Yeung Seng Bo at 33 (Narrator))
I Love Mary
The Sexy Lady Driver
(Steven George)
Omega Syndrome
(Leonard Waxman)
Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World
M on the Bund
(Self)
Family Day
(Tourist)
In the Mood for Doyle
(Himself)
Wind
(Himself)
Reflections of Lady in the Water
McDull, the Alumni
(BBQ cook)
A Moment in Time
Parts Unknown: Hong Kong
(Himself)
Paranoid Park
(Uncle Tommy)
Making Paranoid Park
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
(Self)
Psycho Path
(Self - Cinematographer)
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
(Self)
The Land of the Brave
(Australian Man (Cameo))
Christopher Doyle in Conversation: Days of Being Wild
(Himself)
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
(Self - Guest / Cinematographer (archive footage))
The Culture Show
(Self)
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)
Fallen Angels
(Director of Photography)
Psycho
(Director of Photography)
Chungking Express
(Director of Photography)
Last Life in the Universe
(Director of Photography)
Away with Words
(Director)
Away with Words
(Writer)
The Quiet American
(Director of Photography)
Dumplings
(Director of Photography)
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)
Warsaw Dark
(Director)
Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together'
(Director of Photography)
The Hand
(Director of Photography)
Burning Snow
(Director of Photography)
American Dreams in China
(Director of Photography)
Mary from Beijing
(Director of Photography)
The Limits of Control
(Director of Photography)
Temptress Moon
(Director of Photography)
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
(Director of Photography)
Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
(Director of Photography)
I Am Sorry
(Director of Photography)
4 Faces of Eve
(Director of Photography)
Motel Cactus
(Director of Photography)
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
(Director of Photography)
That Day, on the Beach
(Director of Photography)
Three... Extremes
(Director of Photography)
Days of Being Wild
(Director of Photography)
First Love: The Litter on the Breeze
(Director of Photography)
Perhaps Love
(Director of Photography)
Return Engagement
(Director of Photography)
Invisible Waves
(Director of Photography)
Red Lotus Society
(Director of Photography)
Green Tea
(Director of Photography)
Bends
(Director of Photography)
Ashes of Time
(Director of Photography)
McDull, the Alumni
(Director of Photography)
Tri-Star
(Director of Photography)
Away with Words
(Director of Photography)
Ocean Heaven
(Director of Photography)
Three
(Director of Photography)
Red Rose White Rose
(Director of Photography)
Lady in the Water
(Director of Photography)
The Peony Pavilion
(Director of Photography)
wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net
(Director of Photography)
Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her
(Director of Photography)
Made
(Director of Photography)
To Heaven, to Gather
(Cinematography)
Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore
(Director of Photography)
A Good Story
(Director of Photography)
Magic Magic
(Director of Photography)
Ah Fu
(Director of Photography)
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous
(Director)
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous
(Writer)
Passion Play
(Director of Photography)
Soul
(Director of Photography)
Showtime
(Director of Photography)
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous
(Director of Photography)
Downloading Nancy
(Director of Photography)
Port of Call
(Director of Photography)
The White Girl
(Writer)
I Am Belfast
(Director of Photography)
Stockholm, My Love
(Director of Photography)
Wind
(Director of Photography)
Out of the Blue
(Cinematography)
Beijing Bastards
(Producer)
Fundamentally Happy
(Director of Photography)
The White Girl
(Director)
Red Surf
(Stunts)
The White Countess
(Director of Photography)
The Boat-Burning Festival
(Cinematography)
You Mean The World To Me
(Director of Photography)
Endless Poetry
(Director of Photography)
M on the Bund
(Executive Producer)
Beautiful 2014
(Director)
Hunters in the Dark
(Director of Photography)
Love Only
(Cinematography)
Love Only
(Director)
Late in Summer
(Director of Photography)
Beijing, New York
(Director of Photography)
Morte Cucina
(Cinematography)
Irma Vep
(Thanks)
Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World
(Director)
Christine (Film of Her)
(Director)
Paris Je T'aime
(Writer)
Tezuka's Barbara
(Cinematography)
Twelve Twenty
(Cinematography)
Blue Sky Bones
(Cinematography)
Enishi: The Bride of Izumo
(Cinematography)
Tormented
(Director of Photography)
The White Girl
(Cinematography)
Parts Unknown: Hong Kong
(Cinematography)
Cuba
(Cinematography)
Chinese Box
(Second Unit Director of Photography)
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
(Director of Photography)
Liberty Heights
(Director of Photography)
Noir et blanc
(Director of Photography)
Love After Love
(Director of Photography)
Human Flow
(Director of Photography)
Motorola
(Cinematography)
Just 1 Day
(Cinematography)
人間繁花
(Director of Photography)