Andy Warhol′s Screen Tests were filmed from early 1964 to November 1966. Factory visitors who had potential "star" quality would be seated in front of a tripod mounted camera, asked to be as still as possible, and told not to blink while the camera was running. Warhol manipulated light and shadow in increasingly inventive ways to capture the appearance, style, personality, and mood of both famous and lesser-known visitors to his studio, the Factory. His subjects included Dennis Hopper, Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick, Susan Sontag, and Salvador Dalí. Although each film was shot at standard sound speed, or twenty-four frames per second, Warhol specified that prints be projected at a slower speed of sixteen frames per second, a rate used in the projection of silent films. The result is an unusual fluidity of pace, a rhythm gently at odds with the starkness of the lighting and the boldness of the close-ups of face and hair.In total more than 500 Screen Tests were made. Helmut was the seventh.
夏日江城,出租车司机吴涛(曾志伟 饰)驾车意外坠江身亡,留给妻子凡丽(蒋雯丽 饰)的除了腹中的遗腹子以及高中毕业的儿子小川(檀健次 饰)还有个受伤女乘客苏丹(莫文蔚 饰)。凡丽无法负担高额的住院费,只能接苏丹回家亲自照顾。男人的去世,让这个家弥漫着一种哀伤之气,而风尘女子苏丹的入住让这个家焕发出一丝生机。小川从迷茫少年开始变得成熟,而凡丽也渐渐摆脱了丧夫之痛。苏丹腿伤慢慢好转,凡丽为了避免苏丹和儿子的进一步接触想办法把苏丹打发走。一直对父亲的死因有怀疑的小川在两年后找到了苏丹,本来只是给她送赔偿金时却意外发现了一个秘密。本片由导演张一白编剧并执导,是张一白“爱情三部曲”(其他两部《开往春天的地铁》、《夜上海》)中的最后一部。