"It's about how two unconnectable people make a connection. This very strange moment, when a satellite is being deliberately crashed into Jupiter, somehow makes it possible for the two of them to come together. It's funny that it takes something so bizarre, but, at the same time, it echoes an intense personal moment between them."
- Clayton Brown
After a fifth-place finish at a New York film festival for his film, I Will If You Will, Brown was inspired, depressed, and motivated all at once. Coming home to Chicago, he was determined to write something that might take him to the next level as a filmmaker.
His previous short films, including Relax and The Shadow and the Sound, were more experimental in form and content, so Brown wanted to write a traditional script that was strong in character.
Continually interested in people negotiating some kind of obsession, a study of how these obsessions affect the way they interact with the world was manifested in the script for Galileo's Grave
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