Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle, also known as Dù Kěfēng (Mandarin) or Dou Ho-Fung (Cantonese) (traditional Chinese: 杜可風; simplified Chinese: 杜可风), born 2 May 1952, 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.

Christopher Doyle is an award-winning cinematographer. Among his sixty awards and thirty nominations at film festivals around the world are the Technical Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for In the Mood for Love, as well as the Osella d’Oro for Best Cinematography for Ashes of Time at the Venice International Film Festival.

He left his native Sydney beach culture on a Norwegian merchant ship at the age of eighteen, and his subsequent experience as a Kibbutz-nick cowboy in Israel, quack doctor in Thailand, and “green agriculturalist” in India, inform but don’t really explain his work. In the late seventies, Doyle was “re-birthed” as Du Ke Feng, which means “like the wind.”

Since his “birth in art,” Du Ke Feng has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films (including Chungking Express, Temptress Moon, Hero, Happy Together, Dumplings, 2046, etc.), and his "alter ego" Christopher Doyle has made more than twenty in various other languages and film cultures (Psycho, Liberty Heights, Last Life in the Universe, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Paranoid Park, The Limits of Control, etc.). He also wrote, shot, and directed Warsaw Dark, Away with Words, starring Asano Tadanobu, and Hong Kong Trilogy, 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.

Feature films

• That Day, on the Beach (1983) – directed by Edward Yang
• Soul (1986) – directed by Kei Shu
• Noir et blanc (1986) – directed by Claire Devers
• My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1987) – directed by Patrick Tam
• Her Beautiful Life Lies (1989) – directed by Tony Au
• Days of Being Wild (1991) – directed by Wong Kar-wai
• The Peach Blossom Land (1992) – directed by Stan Lai
• Mary from Beijing aka "Awakening" (1992) – directed by Sylvia Chang
• Red Rose White Rose (1994) – directed by Stanley Kwan
• Ashes of Time (1994) – directed by Wong Kar-wai, awarded the Osella d'Oro for Best Cinematography at the Venice International Film Festival
• The Red Lotus Society (1994) – directed by Stan Lai
• Chungking Express (1994) – directed by Wong Kar-wai
• The Peony Pavilion (1995) – directed by Chen Kuo-fu
• Fallen Angels (1995) – directed by Wong Kar-wai
• 4 Faces of Eve (1996) – directed by Kwok-Leung Gan, Eric Kot and Jan Lamb
• Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996) – directed by Stanley Kwan
• Temptress Moon (1996) – directed by Chen Kaige
• First Love: The Litter on the Breeze (1997) – directed by Eric Kot
• Motel Cactus (1997) – directed by Ki-Yong Park
• Happy Together (1997) – directed by Wong Kar-wai
• Psycho (1998) – remake, directed by Gus Van Sant
• Liberty Heights (1999) – directed by Barry Levinson
• Away with Words (1999)
• In the Mood for Love (2000) – directed by Wong Kar-wai, awarded the Grand Technical Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as Best Cinematography Awards by the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics
• Made (2001) – directed by Jon Favreau
• Hero (2002) – directed by Zhang Yimou, awarded Best Cinematography Awards by the New York and Chicago Film Critics Circles and the National Society of Film Critics and at the Hong Kong Film Awards
• The Quiet American (2002) – directed by Phillip Noyce
• Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) – directed by Phillip Noyce
• Green Tea (2003) – directed by Zhang Yuan
• Last Life in the Universe (2003) – directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
• 2046 (2004) – directed by Wong Kar-wai, awarded Best Cinematography Awards by the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics
• Perhaps Love (2005) – directed by Peter Chan
• The White Countess (2005) – directed by James Ivory
• McDull, the Alumni (2006) – directed by Samson Chiu
• Dumplings (2006) – directed by Fruit Chan
• Invisible Waves (2006) – directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
• Lady in the Water (2006) – directed by M. Night Shyamalan
• Paranoid Park (2007) – directed by Gus Van Sant
• Downloading Nancy (2008) – directed by Johan Renck
• The Limits of Control (2009) – directed by Jim Jarmusch
• Ondine (2009) – directed by Neil Jordan
• Ocean Heaven (2010) – directed by Xue Xiao-Lu
• Passion Play (2010) – directed by Mitch Glazer
• Love for Life (2011) – directed by Gu Changwei
• Tormented (2011) – directed by Takashi Shimizu
• Underwater Love – A Pink Musical (2011) – directed by Shinji Imaok
• Magic Magic (2013) – directed by Sebastián Silva
• American Dreams in China (2013) – directed by Peter Chan
• Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore (2014) – directed by Khavn
• Port of Call (2015) - directed by Philip Yung
• Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous (2015)
• The White Girl (2017, in production)

Short films

• The Boat-Burning Festival (1979) – directed by Chang Chao-Tang
• wkw/tk/1996@7′55″hk.net (1996) – directed by Wong Kar-wai
• Six Days (2002) – directed by Wong Kar-wai
• Three (2002) – segment "Going Home," directed by Peter Chan
• Eros (2004) – segment "The Hand," directed by Wong Kar-wai
• Three... Extremes (2004) – segment "Dumplings," directed by Fruit Chan
• The Madness of the Dance (2006) – directed by Carol Morley
• Meeting Helen (2007) – directed by Emily Woof
• White Sand (2011) – directed by Tsien-Tsien Zhang
• Linda Linda (2012) – directed by Tsien-Tsien Zhang
• A Good Story (2013) – directed by Martin-Christopher Bode
• Allergic to Art (2014) – directed by Christopher Doyle and Jenny Suen

Feature films

• Away with Words (1999)
• Izolator aka "Warsaw Dark" (2008)
• Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous (2015)
• The White Girl (2017, in production)

Short films

• Home / Movie (1981)
• Paris, je t'aime (2006) – segment "Porte de Choisy"

Videos

• Dumbass on YouTube (2013) – musicvideo with lyrics by Ai Weiwei, music by Zuoxiao Zuzhou