The third program in the film series, Dancers on Film, revisits the 1986 film screening, "Maya Deren in Context," with a focus on the Black dancers in these films and the impact they had on their creative communities. In this conversation, research specialist Kristin Juarez, scholar James Smalls, and multidisciplinary artist Kandis Williams screen films—including a selection of Deren shorts, experimental films from the 1930s and 1940s, and Williams's Annexation Tango (2020)—and discuss the influence of Black dance within an ongoing lineage of experimental film. The film screening at The Kitchen placed the groundbreaking filmmaker among European and American avant-gardes. Yet Deren’s experimental films were also deeply influenced by the dances and rituals of Haiti, and her early work for the choreographer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham, who studied and made dances reflective of the African diaspora in the Americas.