Keith Gordon, a 25-year-old performer who dropped out of Manhattan`s Dalton School at the age of 16 to pursue an acting career, has ventured behind the camera in his first writing and producing effort. He is star, co-writer and co-producer of ”Static.”
The film is about a young factory worker in Arizona who invents a television set that can tune in to heaven. The only problem is that no one except him can see heaven–the image just looks like static to everyone else. The film is a comic meditation on belief and madness that opened to such positive reviews in London that even Gordon was surprised. ”It`s been playing in London for 10 weeks, and it did great critically,” he said. ”Frankly, better than it deserved. The reviews were like your mother wrote them.”
The film is directed by a newcomer, Mark Romanek, with whom Gordon wrote the script. The two met when both were working on Brian De Palma`s ”Home Movies” in 1978. Gordon also played leading roles in De Palma`s ”Dressed to Kill” and John Carpenter`s ”Christine.” He recently played opposite Rodney Dangerfield in ”Back to School.”
