Christopher Doyle

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.

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In the Mood for Love 2001

2025

Director of Photography

人間繁花

2024

Director of Photography

Just 1 Day

2022

Cinematography

Love After Love

2021

Director of Photography

Tezuka's Barbara

2020

Cinematography

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

2019

Director of Photography

Cuba

2019

Cinematography

To Heaven, to Gather

2018

Cinematography

Love Only

2018

Director, Cinematography

The White Girl

2017

Writer, Director, Director of Photography

Human Flow

2017

Director of Photography

You Mean The World To Me

2017

Director of Photography

Wind

2016

Director of Photography

Stockholm, My Love

2016

Director of Photography

I Am Belfast

2016

Director of Photography

Endless Poetry

2016

Director of Photography

Enishi: The Bride of Izumo

2016

Cinematography

Port of Call

2015

Director of Photography

Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous

2015

Director, Writer, Director of Photography

Fundamentally Happy

2015

Director of Photography

Beijing, New York

2015

Director of Photography

Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore

2014

Director of Photography