Aby Warburg, (1866-1929), an art historian of startling originality, came from the renowned Warburg banking family of Hamburg, Germany. Already in his teens, the first of seven children, he made a deal with his next oldest brother, to forfeit his birth right to take over the family bank in exchange for full financial support in buying all the books that he would ever want. The library he assembled would become a refuge of scholarship. In 1933, with the Nazi takeover and the deprivation of Jewish rights, 60,000 books, photographs, and papers were shipped to London to become the Warburg Library and Institute eventually housed at the University of London. 　　This documentary on the life and work of Aby Warburg, traces the development of his ideas in their historical context. From his early studies on the early Italian Renaissance to his ventures in the American Southwest observing Hopi and Zuni ritual dances in 1895, Warburg sought the legacy of ancient Greece in the images and symbols of cultures, which he followed through iconographic studies that he pioneered. He sought connections between gesture and art in antiquity, the Renaissance and modern times. Underneath the seeming rationality of antiquity and the Renaissance, he sensed conflict and irrationality. 　　Aby Warburg never took an academic position but pursued his interests and collection of books with passion. Recurrent depressions lead to hospitalization in a psychiatric clinic in Switzerland 1921-1924. For the last five years of his life, he gave occasional lectures and seminars, but publishing almost nothing. Most notably, he developed a picture atlas, Mnemosyne, (the personification of Memory in Greek mythology,) consisting of 60 wooden panels with some 1000 images arranged according to themes and juxtapositions, concerning memory, astrology and mythology, archeology, migration of the ancient gods, vehicles of tradition, irruption of antiquity, Dionysiac formulae of emotions, Nike and Fortuna, Durer, the baroque, the reemergence of antiquity, Manet, the classical tradition today. 　　The principal motifs of Warburg’s scholarship are discussed by leading art historians in England, US and Germany, including Professors Michael Diers, Uwe Fleckner, David Freedberg, and Joseph Koerner. Filming took place in London and Hamburg. 　　This film should be of interest to anyone interested in the history of ideas, art history, social and cultural history.

When overworked graphic designer Roy faints, he wakes up to the beautiful Nurse Abi taking care of him. This starts Roy’s fantasy of going out and sleeping with Nurse Abi. But can he turn this fantasy into a reality?

When overworked graphic designer Roy faints, he wakes up to the beautiful Nurse Abi taking care of him. This starts Roy’s fantasy of going out and sleeping with Nurse Abi. But can he turn this fantasy into a reality?

魔法世界再临，迎接大规模魔法战斗场面！艾碧嘉居住的城市，曾经充斥着不可思议的黑魔法，却被政府秘密封锁，艾碧嘉的父亲也因此消失无踪。长大的艾碧嘉体内的魔法力量渐渐苏醒，她是否能逃过一劫？

魔法世界再临，迎接大规模魔法战斗场面！艾碧嘉居住的城市，曾经充斥着不可思议的黑魔法，却被政府秘密封锁，艾碧嘉的父亲也因此消失无踪。长大的艾碧嘉体内的魔法力量渐渐苏醒，她是否能逃过一劫？

一名不想再干的加油站员工在那天下班后，打算从此离开城市。观众逐渐发现她生活片段的同时，她大步走在称之为家的残破荒土上。

一名不想再干的加油站员工在那天下班后，打算从此离开城市。观众逐渐发现她生活片段的同时，她大步走在称之为家的残破荒土上。

1976 年，一名问题少女结识了受欺负的邻居，她想向欺负她的人复仇，但她的痴迷变成了致命的伤害。

魔法世界再临，迎接大规模魔法战斗场面！艾碧嘉居住的城市，曾经充斥着不可思议的黑魔法，却被政府秘密封锁，艾碧嘉的父亲也因此消失无踪。长大的艾碧嘉…

In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life: he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..