Following Sean (2005)
Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck first met Sean while living as a graduate student in Haight Ashbury at the height of the 1960s. The city was awash with the trappings of America’s cultural revolution-the San Francisco State University campus flooded with cops in riot gear, the Haight filled with drifters and idealists, and, on the third floor of Arlyck’s building, a come-one-come-all crashpad apartment. It was from this top floor commune that the precocious 4-year-old Sean would occasionally wander downstairs to visit and talk-and one day Arlyck turned on his camera. Sean’s casual commentary on everything from smoking pot to living with speed freaks was delivered in simple sincerity throughout the soon-to-be famous 15-minute film. This First Child of the notorious decade may have shaken the audience with his simple sentence- “Sure, I smoke pot”-but it was his barefoot impishness which would encapsulate the hope that lay in front of the nation: a promise of infinite possibility.
The movie Following Sean, released in 2005, features 21 songs from artists like Cass McCombs & Trevor Shimizu, Michael Yonkers Band (1968), David Schickele, Nick Phelps, & David Schrader and Jessica Billey, Nicolai Dunger, Paul Oldham & Will Oldham. What is your favorite song from Following Sean?
Songs from Following Sean
- Horses
- Flying Over
- Sligo River Blues
- I Cannot Lie
- Cass McCombs & Trevor Shimizu
- Sold America
- Michael Yonkers Band (1968)
- Roll Credits
- David Schickele, Nick Phelps, & David Schrader
- Blind Willy
- Skin and Rocks
- Last Night I Dreamt of Mississippi
- Jessica Billey, Nicolai Dunger, Paul Oldham & Will Oldham
- Section 43
- Country Joe and the Fish (as Country Joe & the Fish)
- Beulah Land
- Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
- Eat, Sleep, Mate & Defend
- Perpetual Night
- Evil Son
- The Prodigal Son
- Edinburgh Lag
- Watchin' the Show
- Michael Hurley & Jill Gross
- The Subway Home
- Jherek Bischoff
- The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1, Prelude 1 in C Major)
- Diana Arlyck
- Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
- Never Die Young
- Lori McKenna, Richard Shindell, Kris Delmhorst , Brad Hatfield ,