Documentary Frontiers
Tuesday, February 27 – Thursday, March 1 – 7pm
7pm ** FREE **
Following Sean
(by Ralph Arlyck - 2005, 87 minutes)
In San Francisco at the height of the 1960s filmmaker Ralph Arlyck made a soon-to-be famous short film about Sean, then a precocious four year old who offered casual commentary on everything from smoking pot to speed freaks. His barefoot impishness would encapsulate the hope that lay in front of the nation: a promise of infinite possibility. Thirty years, three generations, and a lifetime later, Arlyck has returned to San Francisco in search of who the adult Sean might have become. What he finds tells him as much about his own east-coast migration as it does about the Californian life he left behind. “Arlyck . . . . prefers to work from the inside out, seamlessly weaving together his own story with Sean’s. Arlyck’s compulsion is to our great fortune. Patient and elegant, his film is a quietly devastating meditation on family, work, and the unrelenting passage of time.” – Drew Tillman, THE VILLAGE VOICE
