Christopher Doyle
Australian cinematographer (born 1952)
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Christopher Doyle (born 2 May 1952), also known as Dou Ho-fung (traditional Chinese: 杜可風; simplified Chinese: 杜可风; pinyin: Dù Kěfēng),[1] is an Australian cinematographer, known for his work in arthouse cinema, mainly Hong Kong films, as well as films directed by Wong Kar-wai.
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- Cinematographer
- actor
- photographer
- film director
1983–present (cinematographer)
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| Born | 2 May 1952 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||
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| Years active | 1978–present (photographer); 1983–present (cinematographer) | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 杜可風 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杜可风 | ||||||||||
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Doyle has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, as well as the AFI Award for cinematography, the Golden Horse award (four times), and the Hong Kong Film Award (six times).
Early life
Doyle was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1952. He left his native country on a Norwegian merchant ship at the age of eighteen. Doyle arrived in Taiwan for the first time in the 1970s, while his ship was docked in Keelung Harbor. Doyle met Stan Lai and Ding Nai-chu at Idea House, a restaurant in Taipei.[2]
Career
While living in other countries, he took on several odd jobs, such as being an oil driller in India, a cow herder in Israel, and a doctor of Chinese medicine in Thailand.[3] In the late seventies, Doyle took an interest in Chinese culture and received the Chinese name Dù Kěfēng, which translates to "like the wind".[4] After language studies in Taiwan, he started working as a photographer. A couple of years later, he became a cinematographer, working with Taiwanese director Edward Yang on the 1983 film That Day, on the Beach.[5]
Doyle has worked on over 50 Chinese-language films. He is best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-wai in Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love and 2046. He has collaborated with other Chinese filmmakers on projects including Temptress Moon, Hero, and Dumplings. He has also made more than 20 films in various other languages, 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, and The Limits of Control, among others.
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.[6] He co-directed The White Girl with Jenny Suen.
Filmography
Cinematographer
Film
Short film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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| 1996 | wkw/tk/1996@7′55″hk.net | Wong Kar-wai | |
| 1998 | Motorola | ||
| 2002 | Goin Home | Peter Chan | Segment of Three |
| 2004 | The Hand | Wong Kar-wai | Segment of Eros |
| Dumplings | Fruit Chan | Segment of Three... Extremes | |
| 2006 | The Madness of the Dance | Carol Morley | With Rain Li |
| 2007 | Meeting Helen | Emily Woof | |
| 2012 | Linda Linda | Tsien-Tsien Zhang | |
Television
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown | Asia Argento | Episode "Hong Kong"; With Frederic Menou |
| 2020 | Ouverture of Something that Never Ended | Alessandro Michele Gus Van Sant |
7 episodes |
Documentary works
Film
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | I Am Belfast | Mark Cousins |
| Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous | Himself | |
| 2017 | Human Flow | Ai Weiwei |
| 2019 | The Rest |
Television
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Century of Cinema | Stanley Kwan | Segment Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema |
Director
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Notes |
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| 1998 | Typhoon Shelter[7] | Yes | [to be determined] | TV movie, co-directed with Shuji Tsukamoto |
| 1999 | Away with Words | Yes | Yes | |
| 2006 | Paris, je t'aime | Yes | Yes | Segment "Porte de Choisy" |
| 2008 | Izolator aka "Warsaw Dark" | Yes | No | |
| 2014 | Beautiful 2014 | Yes | No | Segment "HK 2014 - Education for All" |
| 2015 | Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous | Yes | No | Documentary film |
| 2017 | The White Girl | Yes | Yes | Co-directed with Jenny Suen |
| 2018 | Love Only | Yes | No | Creative and visual director |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Title | Award/Nomination |
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| 1994 | Ashes of Time | Osella d'Oro for Best Cinematography[8] |
| 2000 | In the Mood for Love | Grand Technical Prize at the Cannes Film Festival[9] New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematographer National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography Nominated- Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography |
| 2002 | Hero | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematographer Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography Nominated- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography |
| 2004 | 2046 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematographer National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography |
On 26 May 2017, Doyle was honoured during the 70th Cannes Festival with the “Pierre Angénieux ExcelLens in Cinematography” award, in tribute to his successful and influential career.[10]
Bibliography
- Angel Talk (1996) – Behind the scenes photo book covering Fallen Angels – ISBN 978-4-7952-8069-4
- Backlit by the Moon (1996) – Japanese photography monograph – ISBN 978-4-947648-39-6
- Photographs of Tamaki Ogawa (1996) – Japanese photography monograph – ISBN 978-4-947599-45-2
- Doyle on Doyle (1997) – Japanese photography monograph – ISBN 4-9900557-1-3
- Buenos Aires (1997) – Behind the scenes photo book covering Happy Together – ISBN 978-4-7952-8066-3
- Don't Cry for Me, Argentina (1997) – Photographic journal account of filming Happy Together – ISBN 962-8114-24-7
- A Cloud in Trousers (1998) – Gallery exhibition monograph – ISBN 978-1-889195-33-9
- There Is a Crack in Everything (2003) – Photography monograph
- R34g38b25 (2004) – Behind the scenes photo book covering Hero – ISBN 978-962-86177-0-8
- Talking White - Behind-the-scenes photobook covering The White Girl (co-written with Jenny Suen)