Christopher Doyle

Acting

Christopher Doyle

Overview

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Acting
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Birthday
May 02, 1952 (73 years old)

Christopher Doyle

Known For

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
1h 59m
Movie 2021

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became...

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
1h 48m
Movie 2019

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese...

Wind
Movie 2016

Wind

Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World
0h 10m
Movie 2014

Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World

"I feel like a piece of neon, I'm just a...

Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema
1h 26m
Movie 2011

Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema

Documentary on one of the most famous branches of Japanese...

Showtime
1h 40m
Movie 2010

Showtime

Shanghai, 2009. After four years of studying, a group of...

A Moment in Time
0h 56m
Movie 2010

A Moment in Time

Documentary about the experience of the Chinese in San Francisco's...

Making Paranoid Park
0h 27m
Movie 2008

Making Paranoid Park

Behind the scenes documentary of Gus Van Sant's "Paranoid Park."...

In the Mood for Doyle
0h 54m
Movie 2007

In the Mood for Doyle

Christopher Doyle is one of the best known and most...

Reflections of Lady in the Water
0h 26m
Movie 2006

Reflections of Lady in the Water

Explores the nature of creativity and collaboration on the making...

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.[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.