CHRISTOPHER DOYLE

#1: From interview [for SOHK.TV, 2011]

#2: From interview

#3: From documentary

CHRISTOPHER DOYLE HKSC

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
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]
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