Christopher Doyle

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Christopher Doyle (2005)

Christopher Doyle ( Chinese  杜 可 風  /  杜 可 风 , Pinyin Dù Kěfēng , Jyutping Dou 6 Ho 2 fung 1 , Cantonese  To Ho-Fung ; born May 2, 1952 in Sydney , Australia ) is a Hong Kong- based cameraman , photographer , director , screenwriter and occasionally also actors . During his collaboration with director Wong Kar-Wai , he developed an improvising and extremely agile film style and thus shaped a generation of filmmakers in Asia.

life and work

Christopher Doyle first worked as an oil prospector in Thailand, was a seaman in the Norwegian merchant navy and cowherd in an Israeli kibbutz , theater director in Taiwan and later a doctor for Chinese medicine in Thailand. In 1978 he and friends founded the Lanling Theater Workshop in Taipei , the first modern theater company in Taiwan. He also produced travel films for television ( Traveling Images ).

In 1983 he began his career as a cameraman in Asia. Edward Yang asked him to lead the camera for his debut feature That Day on the Beach, despite protests from full-time cinematographers. Fearing work restrictions afterward, Doyle left Taiwan. In 1986 he went to Paris to work as cameraman for Claire Devers' feature film Noir et Blanc , which was nominated for the César in 1987 in the category Best First Work . Doyle returned to Asia in 1986, when he realized that this was his home. Word of his unusual camerawork got around, so that he found employment in Hong Kong's film industry. He achieved his artistic and commercial breakthrough with Wong Kar-wai's feature film Days of Being Wild (1991). Since then he has shot all of Wong's films except for My Blueberry Nights (2007) and impressed the international audience with his extraordinary camera perspectives, drives and lighting.

In addition to his cooperation with Wong, he has also worked with renowned directors such as Chen Kaige , Stanley Kwan and Zhang Yimou . After a few feature films, he became a sought-after cameraman in Asia and internationally. In 1998 he went to Hollywood , where he was commissioned to film Barry Levinson's drama Liberty Heights (1999) before he ventured to direct a film for the first time. With his debut film Away with Words (1999), for which he also wrote the screenplay, he achieved a respectable success.

Today Doyle works primarily as a photographer and cameraman. His life and work partner is the Chinese camerawoman Rain Kathy Li (* 1983). He is fluent in Standard Chinese , Cantonese , English and French.

Quote

“Chris determines the design of a scene with his ideas, but only if the director himself doesn't know what to do next. He's a very strong personality. [...] Chris is a master at building scenes that breathe a certain anticipation and hold unforeseen possibilities. He would never pan with the movement of the actors like most cameramen do. He lets them go completely or partially out of the picture: What happens now? Sometimes he follows the actors with a little delay without re-centering them, sometimes he cuts them off. In this way, the cinematic space becomes a field full of tension for the audience, over which they never have control. This gives the film its rhythm: It looks as if the camera is reacting to the event and not determining it. "

- Pen-Ek Ratanaruang , 2006

Filmography (selection)

As a cameraman

As a director

  • 1999: Away with Words ( 三條 人 , sān tiao rén , Cantonese  Saam tiu yan )
  • 2006: Paris, je t'aime - Port de Choisy segment
  • 2008: Warsaw Dark (Izolator)
  • 2015: Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous

As a screenwriter

  • 1999: Away with Words ( 三條 人 , sān tiao rén , Cantonese  Saam tiu yan )
  • 2006: Paris, je t'aime - Port de Choisy segment

As an actor

  • 1993: Another Stakeout (Another Stakeout)
  • 1996: Comrades: Almost a Love Story ( 甜蜜 蜜 , tián mì mì , Cantonese  Tim mat mat )
  • 1998: Andoromedia
  • 2002: Marshall Law (TV series)
  • 2006: McDull, the Alumni (Chun tian hua hua tong xue hui)
  • 2007: Paranoid Park

Awards

Hong Kong Film Awards , Hong Kong
Golden Horse Film Festival , Taiwan
Venice International Film Festival , Italy
Cannes International Film Festival , France
National Society of Film Critics , United States
New York Film Critics Circle , United States
Online Film Critics Association , United States
  • 2005 Best camera work in 2046
LA Film Critics Society , United States
Chicago Film Critics Association , United States
  • 2004 Best camera work at Hero

bibliography

Web links

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  1. ↑ Michael Sennhauser: "Chris Doyle's Unleashed Camera" , DRS 2 , March 11, 2008
    Portrait of Christopher Doyle , kino.de, 2009
  2. ↑ Christopher Doyle , New York Times
  3. ^ Photo by Rain Kathy Li and Doyle and Kurz-Bio , cinematographers.nl
  4. ↑ "Panasiatisches Wunderwerk" ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , fluter.de, December 7, 2006, interview with the Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / film.fluter.de
  5. ↑ Christopher Doyle in the Internet Movie Database (English), transcriptions: cinemasie.com ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Information on the Golden Horse Film Festival and the Hong Kong Movie Awards : Cinemasie.com ( memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), information on all other awards: New York Times ( memento of August 20, 2003 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Doyle, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , Australia