Screen Test: Helmut

Screen Test: Helmut — Plot

Screen Test: Helmut, by Andy Warhol, is a five minute silent black and white continuous close-up of a young man’s face. The face remains deathly still other than the occasional blink or involuntary bat of his eyelash. The film is slowed down to about 24-frames per-second to capture these slight movements a bit better, but other than this and the choppy fade-in’s and out’s at the beginning and end respectively, nothing changes throughout the film.

• Release date
• January 1, 1966
• Runtime
• 4 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Andy Warhol