IEC
#1: From interview [Creative Mapping, 2012]
#3: With doph Christopher Doyle
RAIN [KATHY] LI
Born: 25 May 1983, Beijing, China.
Education: The Arts Institute at Bournemouth [Film School], UK.
Career: Left home at 13, then moved to London, UK, and found work as a model. After her study, she started as an electrician on short films, commercials and feature films, moving to the camera department six months later.
Ph commercials dir by David LaChapelle [for Boots; cph: Christopher Doyle], Christopher Doyle, Steve Keevile, a.o. Ph music videos dir by Jim Jarmusch [2006, 'Steady As She Goes'; a: The Raconteurs], Michael Haussman [2006, 'SexyBack'; a: Justin Timberlake], Chris Robinson [a: P. Diddy], Arni & Kinski [2007, 'Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors'; a: Editors; cph: Christopher Doyle], a.o.
Also active as still ph.
Is creative dir of prod company PureFilm Ltd. [founded in 2005]. Founded Velvet Rain Films, bringing fashion, film and art together.
Awards: BSFC Award [2008; shared] for 'Paranoid Park'.
| FILMS & TELEVISION | |
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2002 |
Letting Go [Caitlin Nichols] ?; short/15m; prod Ryerson University, Toronto |
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2002 |
Return [Kathy (Rain) Li] c; short/13m |
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2004 |
The Last Game [Kathy (Rain) Li] c; short/13m |
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2004 |
Cycle [Kate Freeland] s16/c; short/15m |
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2005 |
Pop Goes To the Bhangra [Rajesh Nair] HD/c |
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2005 |
Paris, je t'aime [seg 'Porte de Choisy' dir by Christopher Doyle] b&w-c; 18 seg; + co-scrpl; filmed 2002-05; also shown digitally |
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2005 |
Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her [seg (30m) 'Twelve Twenty' dir by Pen-ek Ratanaruang] dv/c; 3 seg; cph: Christopher Doyle |
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2005 |
Meeting Helen/What Is Sex? [Emily Woof] s16/c; short/30m; cph: Christopher Doyle; micro-budget feature + short (30m) |
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2006 |
The Madness of the Dance [Carol Morley] s16/c; short/18m; cph: Christopher Doyle |
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2006 |
Paranoid Park [Gus Van Sant] s8+35mm-to-35mm/c; cph: Christopher Doyle |
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2006 |
Losing Her [James Killough] HD (ARRI D-20)/c; short/29m; sponsored by Tate Britain and Topshop |
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2006 |
The Story of the Eye [Christopher Doyle] in development; status unknown |
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2006 |
Dirty Rats [John Dawson] in development; status unknown |
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2007 |
Downloading Nancy [Johan Renck] c; cph: Christopher Doyle; originally scheduled to start in June 2005 |
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2007 |
Muss ich schreiben? Briefe an einen jungen Dichter/Must I Write? Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke [Hermann Vaske] tvm/15m; Dennis Hopper reads 'Letters to a Young Poet' by Rainer Maria Rilke; seg ARTE-tv theme night 'Die Poetry SLAM!Revue' (2007) |
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2007 |
Uncertainty [Scott McGehee & David Siegel] s16+HD (ARRI D-20)-to-35mm scope/c; 2uc: Jae Song |
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2007 |
Izolator/Warsaw Dark [Christopher Doyle] c |
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2008 |
The Limits of Control [Jim Jarmusch] c; 2uc; ph: Christopher Doyle |
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2008 |
8 [seg (10m) 'Bréfið/The Letter' dir by Gael García Bernal] c; 8 seg; other ph: Declan Quinn, Greig Fraser, a.o.; films based on the 8 Millennium Development Goals (2000); filmed 2005-08 |
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2008 |
Hatter [James Killough] pre-production |
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2008 |
The Killing Moon [Sridhar Reddy] pre-production; project fell apart in September 2008 |
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2008 |
The Priest [Ivana Bobic] HD/c; short/6m |
With dir Nathan Silver - "The Blind"
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2008 |
The Blind [Nathan Silver] c; shot in 12½ days (September) |
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2008 |
Island/The Sea Change [Elizabeth Mitchell & Brek Taylor] s16/c; addph: David Rom |
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2009 |
Yong xin tiao/Showtime/Dancing With the Heart/ Energy Behind the Heart [Stanley Kwan] c; cph: Christopher Doyle |
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2009 |
Hai yang tian tang/Ocean Heaven [Xiao Lu Xue] c; 2uc; ph: Christopher Doyle |
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2010 |
Rain [David Mahmoudieh] interior scenes for this short film were shot in April; status unknown |
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2011 |
In the Night [Ivana Bobic] c; short/13m |
| FASHION FILMS | |
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2006 |
Dries Van Noten [Rain Li] c; comm installation/15m; for Dries Van Noten's Spring/Summer Fashion Collection |
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2008 |
The Princess and the Pea [Camilla Robinson] 16mm+CCTV/b&w-c; comm short/9m; for Sweet Pea Fine Jewellery |
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2009 |
The Man with the Suitcase [Max Vadukul] b&w (sepia & blue); comm dance short/9m; for Yohji Yamamoto's 'Coming Soon' fashion label (Fall-Winter 2009 Collection) |
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2009 |
Le Chef Chic [Max Vadukul] HD/c; comm dance short/4m; for Yohji Yamamoto's 'Coming Soon' fashion label (Spring-Summer 2010 Collection) |
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2010 |
Red [Rain Li] c; comm dance short/5m; for Modern Media Group (China) & Ports International |
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2010 |
Awakening [Rain Li] c; comm dance short/3m; for Modern Media Group (China) |
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2010 |
After Dark [Rain Li] c; comm short/9m; cph: Christopher Doyle; for 3.1 Phillip Lim (designer) & Lane Crawford (store) |
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2010 |
Leaving Dreamland [Ivana Bobic & Rain Li] c; comm short/5m; for b Store (fashion label) |
| FILMS AS DIRECTOR [see also Fashion Films] | |
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2012 |
Geography of the Hapless Heart [seg 'New York'] a trilogy of feature films (each comprising 3 short films); other dir: David Allain ('Sweat' ['London']), Samantha Rebillet ('Sydney'), Alexandra Billington ('Berlin'), Espen Solberg ('Norway'), Asa Mader, a.o.; ph: Trevor Forrest, Mateusz Skalski ('Berlin'), Viggo Knudsen ('Norway'), a.o.; filmed 2010-12 |
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2013 |
Beijing, New York [+ scrpl; feature] ph: Christopher Doyle & Sion Michel |
