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Christopher Doyle
Birth at
2 May 1952
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The famous cameraman Christopher Doyle was born on May 2, 1952 in Sydney, Australia. After leaving Australia at eighteen, he took up many occupations, including working in oil production in India, three years sailing on a Norwegian merchant ship, herding cows on an Israeli kibbutz, and practicing as a doctor in Thailand. In the second half of the seventies, Doyle studied Chinese in Hong Kong, and then moved to Taiwan, where he plunged into the local artistic life - participated in the creation of
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The famous cameraman Christopher Doyle was born on May 2, 1952 in Sydney, Australia. After leaving Australia at eighteen, he took up many occupations, including working in oil production in India, three years sailing on a Norwegian merchant ship, herding cows on an Israeli kibbutz, and practicing as a doctor in Thailand. In the second half of the seventies, Doyle studied Chinese in Hong Kong, and then moved to Taiwan, where he plunged into the local artistic life - participated in the creation of the first modern Taiwanese theater troupe "Lanling", was engaged in photography, worked on television and mastered the camera craft. He made his debut as a cameraman in 1983 in the film directed by Edward Young “That Day on the Beach”, and three years later worked in France on Claire Devers’ debut film “Black and White” (1986).
When he returned to Hong Kong, he continued to work with local directors, but first became known in 1991, with the film “Wild Days” by Wong Kar Wai, for which he was awarded the National Film Award of Hong Kong for Best Cinematography. Their next film was the urban drama Chungki Express (1994), which opened the way for Kar Wai to a wide American audience. Since then, Doyle has constantly collaborated with Kar Vai – his free, spatial manner of shooting and inventive work with color perfectly suited the director’s paintings. Together they shot such films as "The Ashes of Time" (1994), "Fallen Angels" (1995), "Happy Together" (1997), "Love Mood" (2000, prize for the cinematography of the Cannes Film Festival), "2046" (2004).
In addition, Doyle worked with Hong Kong directors Sylvia Chang and Stanley Kwan, together with Gus Van Sant shot a remake of the film "Psychosis" (1998) (while Doyle himself had never seen the original version of Alfred Hitchcock before), "James" (James Kaletihletihlady) (2002) was the cameraman for such films as "The American" (1996) and "Chylady" (Chylady). As a director in 1998, Doyle directed the drama “No Need for Words”, then many years later the short film “Chinatown”, included in the film almanacs “Paris, I Love You” (2006).
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