Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum is one of Chicago's greatest treasures, providing decades of peerless insight into films both big and small, domestic and international. For one night only, see a rare film that sees him in the leading role. Peter Bull's The Two-Backed Beast, or The Critic Makes the Film (1978, 45 mins) is an experimental short film that finds Rosenbaum playing himself, being interviewed about a film that doesn't exist. Bull proceeds to create the film that Rosenbaum describes. The alternating footage provides insight into these two different modes of representation. The Two-Backed Beast will be preceded by two films hand-selected by Rosenbaum himself: Michael Snow's Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly) (1976, 15 mins) and Owen Land's On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? (1977, 18 mins). All three films will be projected on 16mm.