Following Sean

If the child is father to the man, then what kind of man will 4-year-old Sean Farrell — a bright, inquisitive youngster who knows all about pot, speed freaks and the perfidy of policemen — grow up to be? Ralph Arlyck didn't address that question in his 1969 short Sean, which earned film-festival acclaim and played on double bills with Francois Truffaut's THE WILD CHILD, though horrified viewers did ask him. Arlyck simply pointed a camera at Sean, the son of Arlyck's hippie neighbors in San Francisco's counterculture-friendly Haight Ashbury, capturing the child's open-faced charm and offbeat perceptions. But a quarter of a century later, Arlyck found ...