Following Sean

In 1969, Ralph Arlyck made a short film about Sean, a four-year-old boy who used to explore the hippie San Francisco barefoot, talking about joints, drug-addict neighbours and truncheon-armed cops. The filmmaker was often asked if he knew what had become of Sean. In 1999, Ralph returned to San Francisco to look for Sean, his parents, his communist grandparents, as well as traces of his own life with his New-Yorker parents, who are communist more in spirit than in action. The portrait of three generations of American utopians, a look into how commitment changes and thoughts on parent-child relationships. “As I listen to Sean talk about his father, and especially the inspiration brought to bear by his grandparents? strong working-class, communist philosophies, I discovered I was examining my own life as much as I was Sean?s” (Ralph Arlyck)