Following Sean (2005)
The more things change, the more we're not the same
87 min
Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck first met Sean while living as a graduate student in Haight Ashbury at the height of the 1960s. The city was awash with the trappings of America’s cultural revolution-the San Francisco State University campus flooded with cops in riot gear, the Haight filled with drifters and idealists, and, on the third floor of Arlyck’s building, a come-one-come-all crashpad apartment. It was from this top floor commune that the precocious 4-year-old Sean would occasionally wander downstairs to visit and talk-and one day Arlyck turned on his camera. Sean’s casual commentary on everything from smoking pot to living with speed freaks was delivered in simple sincerity throughout the soon-to-be famous 15-minute film. This First Child of the notorious decade may have shaken the audience with his simple sentence- “Sure, I smoke pot”-but it was his barefoot impishness which would encapsulate the hope that lay in front of the nation: a promise of infinite possibility.
- Release date
- May 5, 2006
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Ralph Arlyck as Narrator
- Sean Farrell as Self
Crew
- Ralph Arlyck · Director
- Ralph Arlyck · Writer
- Ralph Arlyck · Producer
- Malcolm Pullinger · Producer
- Eric Neveux · Composer
- Ralph Arlyck · Cinematographer
- Tom Tucker · Cinematographer
- Malcolm Pullinger · Editor