Photo of a photo The Melbourne International Film Festival is over, and I saw no films. On Saturday though, I did go and see an exhibition of photopgraphy by the Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Doyle has mostly worked in Asia, particularly with a director named Wong Kar Wai.

The photographs on display were taken by Doyle during the shooting of a number of films - most of them appear to be of actors rehearsing or waiting for the next shot or scene. All of the photos show elements of the style that characterises Doyle's work - often just-out-of-focus, or strangely coloured, obscured, or oddly lit. Doyle is a master of hiding part of the image and asking the viewer to deduce what should be there.

This photo (my photo of a photo) is of Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung on the set of "In the mood for love" (click on the photo to see a larger version).



After we saw the exhibition, we rented the DVD of "In the mood for love" and watched it that night. So maybe in a way we did see something in the festival.  ¶ 8:01 AM