Following Sean

The director Ralph Arlyck first met Sean at the end of the sixties. He was a graduate student then, living in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco. The district was at the centre of the cultural change of those days; the university campus was full of police in riot gear and the streets full of drifters and idealists. On the top floor of Arlyck’s building was a crash pad open to anyone. Sean, who was four, would come down now and then to talk. One day Arlyck turned the camera on, and a fifteen minute film came out of it. What the child said about smoking pot and about the people living in that flat made the film known. Years later Arlyck finds the same person and looks at how the story went on. What came after a period’s promise is the real subject. Ralph Arlyck’s eighty seven minute American documentary was completed in 2006.