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" Ben and Baba" - a story of father and son

Steve Ben Israel made his performing debut in the late 1950s as a comedian in the Greenwich coffee house renaissance, working alongside Bob Dylan , Peter & Mary and many others. In the late 1970s he developed an unique style of solo performance and ever since he performed pieces at New York venues including The Kitchen and the Puffin Room. "Nonviolent executions"is the title of his most recent production.
His son BABA is a Hip Hop performing and recording artist. This year he performed on Broadway at the New Victory Theater. He is a founding member of Playback Theater NYC, a group that performs in hospitals, prisons and shelters.
The film concentrates on the charismatic personalities of the two protagonists.
Father and son are each representing another generation of rebellion and the art of survival in the jungle of the moloch Big Apple. Ben and Baba have a very special relationship with each other, the film will enter into her inner thoughts, their poetry and lyrics, their encounters with black jazz and Hip Hop artists in a city that is still suffering from the aftermaths of ground zero.
Ben says: " I conduct seances to contact the living!"
Baba says: " I am too terrified to be terrrified by terrorism."