IEC
#1: From interview [for SOHK.TV, 2011]
#2: From interview
#3: From documentary
Born: 2 May 1952, Sydney, Australia. Also known as Du Ke-feng and Ho Fung To.
Education: University of Maryland, USA [Art History].
Career: Fled his suburban youth for a life of adventure: working as a well digger in India, a Norwegian merchant marine, a cow herder on an Israeli kibbutz and a doctor of Chinese medicine in Thailand. Arrived in Hong Kong at the end of the 1970s to pursue an interest in Chinese language and literature, and there acquired his Chinese name Du Ke-feng. He soon moved to Taiwan, where an involvement in fringe theatre [he was a founding member of the Lan Ling Theatre Workshop in 1978] and dance troupes led him into work as a photographer and videographer.
Ph commercials. Ph music videos, e.g. 'Dirty Beaches White Sand' [2011, Tsien-Tsien (Qianqian) Zhang; a: Dirty Beaches] & 'Linda Linda' [2012, Tsien-Tsien (Qianqian) Zhang; a: The Blue Hearts].
Also active as still ph with exhibitions in Rotterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, USA, etc. A book on his still photography, 'A Cloud in Trousers', was published in 1998. Made, with Gus Van Sant, 'The Picture Is Up', an image and text-based collab exhibited in Los Angeles in 1998.
Debut as director in 1998.
Appeared in the doc's 'Orientations: Christopher Doyle - Stirred Not Shaken' [1999, Rick Farquharson; ph: Catherine Marciniak & Roman Baska; 54m], 'Psycho Path' [1999, D-J; ph: D-J & Jeffrey Schwarz], 'In the Mood for Doyle' [2007, Yves Montmayeur; 54m], a.o.
Awards [selection]: Hong Kong Film Award nom [8x]; Venice IFF 'Osella d'Oro' [1994], 'Golden Horse' Award [1994] & Hong Kong Film Award [1995] for 'Dung che sai duk/Ashes of Time'; 'Golden Horse' Award [1997] for 'Chun gwong tsa sit/Happy Together'; Eastman Kodak Award for Excellence in Cinematography [1999]; Cannes IFF Technical Grand Prix [2000; shared] & NYFCC Award [2001; shared] for 'Fa yeung nin wa/In the Mood for Love'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [2002] & Camerimage 'Golden Frog' nom [2002] for 'Rabbit-Proof Fence'; Manaki Brothers Film Camera Festival 'Special Golden Camera 300 Award' [2002] for his contribution to the world film art; Manaki Brothers 'Golden Camera 300' Award [2003] & Camerimage 'Golden Frog' nom [2003] for 'Ying xiong/[Jet Li's] Hero'; Bangkok IFF 'Special Kinnarree Award' [2004]; Istanbul IFF 'Honorary Award' [2004]; Valladolid IFF 'Best Director of Photography Award' [2004; shared], Hong Kong Film Award [2005; shared] & NSFC Award [2006; shared] for '2046'; BSFC Award [2008; shared] for 'Paranoid Park'.
FILMS | |
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1981 |
Haitan te yitian/That Day on the Beach [Edward Yang] c; cph: Zhang Hui-gong |
1984 |
Noir et blanc/Black and White [Claire Devers] b&w; cph: Daniel Desbois, Alain Lasfargues & Jean-Paul Rosa Da Costa |
1986 |
Lao niang gou sao/Soul [Shu Kei] c |
1987 |
Xue zai shao/Burning Snow [Patrick Tam] c |
1987 |
Sha shou hu die meng/My Heart Is That Eternal Rose [Patrick Tam] c; cph: David Chung |
1988 |
Shou huang de nu ren/Her Beautiful Life Lies/I'm Sorry [Tony Au] c |
1990 |
A Fei jing juen/Ahfei zhenjuang/Days of Being Wild/Ah Fei's Story [Kar-wai Wong] c; 2uc: Ngai Chi-Kwan & Wai-keung Lau; originally part 1 of 2-part film; part 2 was cancelled |
1992 |
Meng xing shi fan/Mungsing sifan/Mary from Beijing/Awakening [Sylvia Chang] c |
1992 |
An lian tao hua yuan/The Peach Blossom Land [Stan Lai] c |
1993 |
Dongxie xidu/Dung che sai duk/Ashes of Time [Kar-wai Wong] c; see 2008 |
1994 |
Fei xia a da/The Red Lotus Society [Stan Lai] c |
1994 |
Hong meigui, bai meigui/Hung muigwai yu pak muigwai/Red Rose White Rose [Stanley Kwan] c |
1994 |
Chong qing sen lin/Chung Hing sam lam/Chung King Express [Kar-wai Wong] c; cph: Wai-keung Lau; 2uc: Chen Guanghong |
1994 |
Wo de mei li yu ai chou/The Peony Pavilion [Kuo-fu Chen] c |
1994 |
Feng yue/Temptress Moon [Chen Kaige] c; filmed August 1994 & April 1995 |
1994 |
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema [Stanley Kwan] dv/b&w-c; doc/80m |
1995 |
Duo luo tian shi/Fallen Angels [Kar-wai Wong] c; 2uc: Chen Guanghong & Mark Lee Ping-bin |
1996 |
Fai wa siu suet/Out of the Blue [Jan Lamb] ?; doc/?m |
1996 |
wkw/tk/1996@7'55"ht.net [Kar-wai Wong] c; short/8m |
1996 |
Si mian xia wa/4 Faces of Eve [Jan Lamb, Kam Kwok-leung, Eric Kot & Eric Kwok] c |
1996 |
Chun gwong tsa sit/Chunguang zhaxie/Happy Together [Kar-wai Wong] b&w-c |
1997 |
Chinese Box [Wayne Wang] c; 2uc; ph: Vilko Filac |
1997 |
Motel Seoninjang/Motel Cactus [Ki-Yong Park] c |
1997 |
Choh chin luen hau dik yi yan sai gaai/First Love: A Litter on the Breeze [Eric Kot] c |
1998 |
Sip si ling dou - cheun gwong tsa sit/Buenos Aires Zero Degree - The Making of 'Happy Together' [Pun-leung Kwan & Yehua Li (= Amos Lee)] v/c; doc/59m; ph archive footage (unused rushes, etc.); ph: P. Kwan & Y. Li |
1998 |
Fallen Angels [Kar-wai Wong] c; short/25m |
1998 |
A Way with Words/San tiao ren/Kujaku [Christopher Doyle] c; + co-scrpl |
1998 |
Psycho [Gus Van Sant] c |
1998 |
Liberty Heights [Barry Levinson] c |
1999 |
Fa yeung nin wa/Hua yang nian hua/In the Mood for Love/Beijing Summer [Kar-wai Wong] b&w-c; cph: Mark Lee Ping-bin |
1999 |
2046 [Kar-wai Wong] p/b&w-c; uncred cph: Jean-Yves Escoffier; 2uc: Yiu-fai Lai & Pung-leung Kwan; prod started in December 1999 and was stopped/resumed several times in 2000 and August 2001 |
2000 |
Made [Jon Favreau] c |
2000 |
Rabbit-Proof Fence [Phillip Noyce] s35/c; addph: Brad Shield; aph (+ 2uc): Ian Jones |
2000 |
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence [Darlene Johnson] c; doc/43m; cph: Curtis Levy, Roman Baska, a.o. |
2001 |
The Quiet American [Phillip Noyce] s35/c; addph: David Burr; 2uc: Brad Shield |
2001 |
Ying xiong/[Jet Li's] Hero [Zhang Yimou] s35/b&w-c |
2002 |
Saam gaang/San geng/Three [seg #3 'Going Home' dir by Peter Ho-sun Chan] c; 3 seg; other ph: Alex Hong (= Kyung-Pyo Hong) & Nattawut Kittikhun |
2002 |
Six Days [Kar-wai Wong] V/c; music video/4m |
2002 |
Lü cha/Green Tea [Yuan Zhang] c |
2002 |
Ruang rak noi nid mahasan/Last Life in the Universe [Pen-ek Ratanaruang] c |
2003 |
Eros/Ai shen [seg 'The Hand' dir by Kar-wai Wong] b&w-c; 3 seg; other ph: Marco Pontecorvo (seg dir by Michelangelo Antonioni; shot in 2001) & Peter Andrews (= Steven Soderbergh) |
2004 |
Saam gaang yi/Three... Extremes/Three, Monster [seg (37m) 'Dumplings' dir by Fruit Chan] c; 3 seg; other ph: Chung-hoon Chung & Kôichi Kawakami |
2004 |
Gaau ji/Gaudzi/Dumplings [Fruit Chan] c; 2uc: Siu-keung Cheng; feature version (91m) of seg of 'Saam gaang yi' (2004) |
With actor Ralph Fiennes - "The White Countess"
2004 |
The White Countess [James Ivory] c; UK ph: Tony Pierce-Roberts; 2uc: Yiu-fai Lai |
2005 |
Yu guo · Oi/Ru guo · Ai/Perhaps Love [Peter Chan & (collab dir) Samson Chiu] c; Beijing ph; cph: Peter Pau |
2005 |
Invisible Waves [Pen-ek Ratanaruang] c |
2005 |
Lady in the Water [M. Night Shyamalan] c; uwph: Pete Romano |
2005 |
Meeting Helen/What Is Sex? [Emily Woof] s16/c; short/30m; cph: Kathy Li; micro-budget feature + short (?) |
2005 |
Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her [seg (30m) 'Twelve Twenty' dir by Pen-ek Ratanaruang] dv/c; 3 seg; cph: Kathy Li |
2005 |
The Home Song Stories [Tony Ayres] scheduled as doph, but film was ph by Nigel Bluck in May 2006 |
2006 |
The Rainbowmaker [Nana Dzhordzhadze] announced as cph with Phedon Papamichael; ph in April 2007 by Walther Vanden Ende |
2006 |
The Madness of the Dance [Carol Morley] s16/c; short/18m; cph: Kathy Li |
[Left] with dir Gus Van Sant - "Paranoid Park"
2006 |
Paranoid Park [Gus Van Sant] s8+35mm-to-35mm/c; cph: Rain Kathy Li; + small part |
2007 |
Downloading Nancy [Johan Renck] c; cph: Kathy Li |
2007 |
Shantaram [Mira Nair (replaced Peter Weir)] scheduled to start filming in September 2008, but still in development; prod was revived by Warner Bros. in 2013 |
2008 |
Ashes of Time Redux [Kar-wai Wong] c; revamped, re-edited and re-scored version of film (see 1993) |
2008 |
The Limits of Control [Jim Jarmusch] c; 2uc: Kathy Li |
2008 |
Stretch [Charles de Meaux] scheduled as doph; prod started shooting May 2009 (actor David Carradine died 3 June during filming); ph in June/August by Ch. de Meaux & Gustavo Hadba |
2008 |
Ondine [Neil Jordan] s35-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Nic Lawson; aph: Adam Dale |
[Left] with dir Stanley Kwan - "Energy Behind the Heart"
2009 |
Yong xin tiao/Showtime/Dancing With the Heart/Energy Behind the Heart [Stanley Kwan] c; cph: Kathy Li |
2009 |
Hai yang tian tang/Ocean Heaven [Xiao Lu Xue] c; 2uc: Kathy Li; uwph: Tony Lam |
2009 |
Passion Play [Mitch Glazer] c; 2uc: Glenn Kaplan; aph: Hans Bjerno; filmed 2009-10 |
2010 |
Onna no kappa/Underwater Love [Shinji Imaoka] c |
2010 |
Mo shu wai zhuan/Life Is a Miracle/Love for Life/A Tale of Magic [Changwei Gu] RED-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; cph: C. Gu & Tao Yang |
2011 |
Rabitto horâ 3D/Rabbit Horror 3D/Tormented 3D [Takashi Shimizu] HD (Panasonic AG-3DA1)-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema [3-D version])/c |
2012 |
Magic Magic [Sebastián Silva] HD (ARRI ALEXA)/c; cph: Glenn Kaplan |
2012 |
The Boy and the Bus [Simon Pitts] s16/c; short/23m; comm by BBC World; filmed mid-June |
2012 |
American Dreams in China/Zhong Guo He Huo Ren [Peter Chan] HD (ARRI ALEXA Plus)-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema)/c |
2012 |
Bends/Guo jie [Flora Lau] c |
2012 |
Eine gute Geschichte/A Good Story [Martin-Christopher Bode] 35mm+HD (Weisscam HS-2)-to-35mm scope/c; short/20m |
2013 |
Lanse gotou/Blue Sky Bones [Jian Cui] c |
2013 |
The Sandstorm [Jason Wishnow] c; short/10m; addph: Matthew Niederhauser |
2013 |
Ruined Heart - Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore [Khavn de la Cruz] c |
2013 |
Beijing, New York [Rain Li] HD (ARRI ALEXA XT + Canon EOS C300) scope/c; cph: Sion Michel; aph: Brian Heller |
2013 |
Fundamentally Happy [Yuan Bin Lei & Bee Thiam Tan] c |
2013 |
The Girl King/Queen Kristina [Mika Kaurismäki] announced as doph, but film was ph by Guy Dufaux in 2014 |
2014 |
I Am Here [David Holmes] c; short/14m |
2014 |
Passione [Hisham Bizri] c; short/15m |
2014 |
I Am Belfast [Mark Cousins] HD/c; doc/84m; cph: M. Cousins |
MISCELLANEOUS [e.g. as director] | |
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1980 |
Traveling Images [co-creator; Taiwanese doc tv-series] |
1993 |
Beijing za zhong/Beijing Bastards [Yuan Zhang] co-prod; ph: Jian Zhang |
1996 |
Tian mimi/Comrades: Almost a Love Story/Hong Kong Love Affair [Peter Chan] played the part of Jeremy, an English teacher; ph: Jingle Ma |
1998 |
A Way with Words/San tiao ren/Kujaku [dir; feature; + co-scrpl/ph] see Films |
2002 |
Mou gaan dou/Mogan do/Wu jian dao/Infernal Affairs [Andrew Lau (= Wai-keung Lau) & Alan Mak (= Siu Fai Mak)] visual cons; ph: Andrew Lau & Yiu-fai Lai |
2005 |
Paris, je t'aime [dir seg 'Porte de Choisy'; + co-scrpl] ph: Kathy Li |
2006 |
The Story of the Eye [dir] ph: Kathy Li; in development; status unknown |
2007 |
Izolator/Warsaw Dark [dir; feature] ph: Rain Kathy Li |
2011 |
Les Bulles de Savon (soap bubbles) [Tsien-Tsien (Qianqian) Zhang] c; short/3m; actor; ph: Kaliisa Conlon & Benjamin Keepers |