Christopher Doyle

Known for CameraBorn 1952-05-02 (age 74)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.Read more

Movies & web series

A Good Story

I Love Mary

The Peony Pavilion

Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema

Three: Going Home

Carry On Yakuza

Family Day

In the Mood for Love

4 Faces of Eve

Chungking Express

Comrades, Almost a Love Story

The Land of the Brave

Ocean Heaven

Fallen Angels

In the Mood for Love 2001

Happy Together

Endless Poetry

Hero

Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land

Return Engagement

That Day, on the Beach

Red Lotus Society

2046

Psycho Path

Days of Being Wild

Last Life in the Universe

Fundamentally Happy

Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World

The Hand

My Heart Is That Eternal Rose

Green Tea

Human Flow

Love for Life

American Dreams in China

Ashes of Time

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together'

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

I Am Belfast

Stockholm, My Love

Three... Extremes

Paris Je T'aime

Perhaps Love

Dumplings

Blue Sky Bones

Liberty Heights

Enishi: The Bride of Izumo