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Thirty years after making a celebrated student short about a four-year-old child of free spirits living in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood at the height of the 1960s, Ralph Arlyck attempts the kind of revelation only documentary film can provide. | Read the synopsis »

Premiered: July 31, 2007 at 10 PM | Check for Rebroadcasts

"The title has a double meaning — the act of following Sean, both as a child
and as an adult, as well as the question of what happened to me (and to some extent, to my generation) in the years that followed those heady '60s days."
—Ralph Arlyck

"SEAN" (1969)

Watch additional clips from the short film that started it all! In 1969, Ralph Arlyck made a student short about his four-year-old neighbor. Sean's precocious thoughts about pot smoking, the police and his life in Haight Ashbury fascinated and horrified audiences at the time. Watch the uncut version of "Sean." »

Sean Farrell and his Russian-born wife Zhanna

"FOLLOWING SEAN" TAKES ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN

Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck talks about the strange experience of making a French-language version of "Following Sean" and reflects on the reception that the film has had abroad, in San Francisco and from Sean himself. »

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Posted July 17, 2007

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