Imagining America

Imagining America is a 1989 anthology film consisting of four shorts with the central theme being life in the United States.

Ralph Bakshi's This Ain't Bebop is about a man's odyssey through surreal downtown Los Angeles as he tries to find the life he once had.

Reflections of a Native Son by Mustapha Khan is a stylized portrait of the South Bronx district of New York City.

Only one of the four, Ralph Bakshi's This Ain't Bebop, is a narrative, while two others are documentaries: Ed Lachman's Get Your Kicks on Route 66 is about the great American '50s highway and Mustapha Khan's Reflections of a Native Son is a vivid look at the teenage subculture of South Bronx.

The fourth piece is Matt Mahurin's Tribe, a cross between impressionist documentary, music video and live-action photo-essay.