During the late 1960s "Summer of Love" era, Ralph Arlyck made a short film about Sean Farrell, a four-year-old Haight-Ashbury waif surrounded by a parade of freewheeling addicts and dreamers. More than 30 years later, Arlyck returned to San Francisco to film Sean and his family again. An engaging essayist, Arlyck shares his own rites of passage, lending a fresh personal spin on an era that long ago became calcified into same-old archival footage. Following Sean also subverts the standard '60s narrative, in which Sean could only become a druggie parasite or a reactionary conservative. Arlyck builds his film with an uncanny power, evoking the crucial choices that each of us makes on our life's path, and revealing the place where idealism and practicality meet. (PS)Preceded by Sun Song (dir. Steve McGreevy, hearingvoices.com, audio, 3 min.) Surprising sounds from our magnetosphere.