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Christopher Doyle

A restless artist reborn as Du Ke Feng, Christopher Doyle chases cinematic perfection across continents and cultures, weaving the soul of Hong Kong into every frame while defying the boundaries of language, genre, and expectation.

Born

May 2, 1952

From

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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In short · Acting since 1982, 5 decades active, 119 credits.

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Biography

Christopher Doyle is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer who frequently works on Chinese-language films. He has received awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, as well as the AFI Award for cinematography, the Golden Horse Awards (four times), and the Hong Kong Film Awards (six times). Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers. He was born in Sydney, Australia in 1952. At the age of eighteen, he left his native country aboard a Norwegian merchant ship and took on various odd jobs, including working as a Kibbutz-nick cowboy in Israel, a homeopathic doctor in Thailand, and a “green agriculturalist” in India. In the late 1970s, Doyle was “re-birthed” as Du Ke Feng, which means “like the wind.” After studying language in Taiwan and working 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 leave the set mid-way through production). He has also collaborated with other Chinese filmmakers on projects including Temptress Moon, Hero, Happy Together, and Dumplings. As his "alter ego" Christopher Doyle, he has worked on more than twenty films in various other languages and film cultures, serving 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.

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 Film 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.

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