Biography
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. 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.
Filmography
all 130
Movies 129
Director 40
self 12
TV Shows 1
Narrator 1
Producer 1
BJ: The Life and Times of Bosco and Jojo (2022)
Just 1 Day (2022)
Love After Love (2021)
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)
The Hand (2021)
Tezuka's Barbara (2020)
They Say Nothing Stays the Same (2019)
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks (2019)
The Rest (2019)
Cuba (2019)
To Heaven, to Gather (2018)
Parts Unknown: Hong Kong (2018)
Love Only (2018)
The White Girl (2017)
Human Flow (2017)
You Mean The World To Me (2017)
Wind (2016)
Stockholm, My Love (2016)
I Am Belfast (2016)
Endless Poetry (2016)
Enishi: The Bride of Izumo (2016)
Simulacrum Tremendum (2016)
Port of Call (2015)
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous (2015)
Fundamentally Happy (2015)
Beijing, New York (2015)
Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore (2014)
The Sand Storm (2014)
Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World (2014)
Beautiful 2014 (2014)
Blue Sky Bones (2013)
Bends (2013)
Magic Magic (2013)
American Dreams in China (2013)
A Good Story (2013)
Tormented (2011)
Love for Life (2011)
Underwater Love (2011)
Passion Play (2011)
Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema (2011)
Showtime (2010)
Ocean Heaven (2010)
A Moment in Time (2010)
Ondine (2009)
The Limits of Control (2009)
Behind the Blur (2009)
Warsaw Dark (2008)
Making Paranoid Park (2008)
Downloading Nancy (2008)
In the Mood for Doyle (2007)
Paranoid Park (2007)
Reflections of Lady in the Water (2006)
Lady in the Water (2006)
Paris Je T'aime (2006)
Invisible Waves (2006)
McDull, the Alumni (2006)
The Madness of the Dance (2006)
Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her (2006)
Twelve Twenty (2006)
Perhaps Love (2005)
The White Countess (2005)
Eros (2004)
The Culture Show (2004)
2046 (2004)
Three… Extremes (2004)
Dumplings (2004)
Green Tea (2003)
1:99 Shorts (2003)
Last Life in the Universe (2003)
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence (2003)
The Quiet American (2002)
Hero (2002)
Three (2002)
Going Home (2002)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong (2001)
Made (2001)
Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken (2001)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Psycho Path (2000)
Liberty Heights (1999)
Away with Words (1999)
Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together' (1999)
Psycho (1998)
Andromedia (1998)
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1998)
Motorola (1998)
First Love: The Litter on the Breeze (1997)
Chinese Box (1997)
Motel Cactus (1997)
Yesterday You, Yesterday Me (1997)
Happy Together (1997)
wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net (1996)
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1996)
4 Faces of Eve (1996)
Irma Vep (1996)
Temptress Moon (1996)
Tri-Star (1996)
Out of the Blue (1995)
The Peony Pavilion (1995)
Fallen Angels (1995)
Red Rose White Rose (1994)
Ashes of Time (1994)
Red Lotus Society (1994)
Chungking Express (1994)
Beijing Bastards (1993)
Mary from Beijing (1992)
Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land (1992)
Days of Being Wild (1990)
Family Day (1990)
Return Engagement (1990)
Red Surf (1989)
Carry on Yakuza (1989)
I Am Sorry (1989)
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1989)
I Love Mary (1988)
Burning Snow (1988)
Omega Syndrome (1986)
Soul (1986)
Noir et blanc (1986)
Ah Fu (1984)
That Day, on the Beach (1983)
The Sexy Lady Driver (1982)
Idle Dream (1981)
The Land of the Brave (1981)
Christine (Film of Her) (1980)
Hunters in the Dark
Morte Cucina
The Star
Christopher Doyle in Conversation: Days of Being Wild
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Known ForCamera
GenderMale
Birthday1952-05-02 (71 years old)
Birth PlaceSydney, Australia
CitizenshipsAustralia
Also Known AsHo Fung To, Kefeng Du, Chris Doyle, 杜可風, 크리스토퍼 도일, 杜可风
AwardsAsia's Most Influential Hong Kong
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