Arlyck, Ralph — The Film Maker’s film: Following Sean… Technique and Life’s Stories
Sean, a four year old child living with his parents in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco in 1969 was the star of a short film about his life. He spoke openly his free-spirited parents, his crash pad home, watching cops bust head, and smoking pot. Ralph Arlyck made the film while a student at San Francisco State University.
Thirty years later he located Sean and his family, and created the film Following Sean. Ralph Arlyck, our guest on this edition of Radio Curious has produced and directed more than a dozen prizewinning films. Following Sean, is a film as much about Ralph Arlyck’s life as it is about Sean’s. It will be shown at the Mendocino Film Festival, held in Mendocino, California, the first weekend of June, 2012, where Arlyck will receive the Albert Maysles Award for Excellence in Documentary Film Filmmaking.
Ralph Arlyck and I visited by phone from his home in Poughkeepsie, New York, on May 14, 2012, and began when I asked him how Following Sean also became a story of Arlyck’s own life.
The film Ralph Arlyck recommends is “Patience (After Sebald,)” a British Film by Grant Gee.
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on October 31st, 2012 at 9:45 pm
Thank you so much for this interview with Ralph Arlyck. I was maddy googling the Internet to find out if Sean became a lawyer or not. I wish he did a d run for office. He could have been our president some day! I am happy that he is happy doing whatever he is doing. I feel bad that he got devirced, it looks mutual and their son seems happily engaged with his dad