1952-05-02 ( 72 years old ) in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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.
Movies
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
2021-07-16
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019-08-14
Wind
2016-11-21
Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World
2014-05-14
Showtime
2010-09-02
A Moment in Time
2010-05-08
Behind the Blur
2009-01-01
Making Paranoid Park
2008-04-24
In the Mood for Doyle
2007-08-30
Paranoid Park
2007-07-12
Reflections of Lady in the Water
2006-12-19
McDull, the Alumni
2006-01-22
Twelve Twenty
2006-01-01
1:99 Shorts
2003-08-04
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
2001-10-01
Psycho Path
2000-02-10
Andromedia
1998-07-11
Yesterday You, Yesterday Me
1997-07-16
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
1996-11-02
Family Day
1990-09-20
Carry on Yakuza
1989-05-11
I Love Mary
1988-09-02
Omega Syndrome
1986-10-26
The Sexy Lady Driver
1982-01-01
Idle Dream
1981-11-07
The Land of the Brave
1981-07-11
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