Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle is an AustralianHong 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 Kibbutznick cowboy in Israel homeopathic doctor in Thailand and green agriculturalist in India work In the late seventies Doyle was rebirthed 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 Yangs That Day on the Beach in 1983 Since his birth in art Du Ke Feng has worked on over fifty Chineselanguage films He is best known for his collaborations with Wong KarWai including Chungking Express In the Mood for Love and 2046 the latter of which saw Doyle walking off set midway 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 Sants remake of Psycho Liberty Heights Last Life in the Universe RabbitProof 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 people5 He is currently filming The White Girl another tribute to his adopted hometown of Hong Kong with codirector 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 cohosted by filmmaker Olivier Assayas and actress Juliette Binoche among others