 In the 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing the victim s eyeballs, it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on that person s retinas. He named this technique  thanatography . Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crime recurs within the walls of an international school of cinema.