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Terence Nance (born February 10, 1982; Dallas, Texas) is an American filmmaker, writer, director, actor and musician. He is best known for his directing debut "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" (2012), and as the creator of the avant-garde TV program "Random Acts of Flyness" (2018), which is produced by his production company MVMT and airs on HBO. Nance is in a relationship with Naima Ramos-Chapman. The two met while they interviewed him for Saint Heron, the creative agency owned by Solange Knowles.
Nance was born in Dallas, Texas. He earned his MFA from New York University where he studied visual art.
Nance's 2012 film "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" incorporates an earlier short film, animation and an original score. It premiered in the Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier section in 2012 and was also screened as part of the 2012 New Directors/New Films Festival in New York. Scholar Terri Francis has described it as "...an experimental film...that recreates the unspoken space amid friendship and relationships". Starring Terence Nance himself and the girl with whom he is caught up in this difficult dance, the film shifts between reconstruction and reimagining using both animation and live action. The film was also featured at a screening as part of the Afrofuturist Film Festival at the New School on 3 May 2015.
In August 2018, Nance's TV series "Random Acts of Flyness" debuted on HBO. In September 2018, Nance was announced as the director of the sequel of Space Jam, produced by Ryan Coogler. On July 16, 2019, it was announced that Nance left the project because he and "the studio/producers had different takes on the creative vision for Space Jam: A New Legacy", though he retained both screenwriting and executive producing credits.
Nance also composes and performs music under the alias "Terence Etc.", composing some of the music for his "Random Acts of Flyness" series and releasing his debut EP "Things I Never Had" in January 2020. His debut full-length album "V O R T E X" was released on August 19, 2022 under the Brainfeeder label.
Most Popular Terence Nance Trailers
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15 January 2021
A teacher gives a brief history lesson on the concept of whitness to students. This is intercut with Rage Against the Machines Killing in The Name of as well as quotes relating to the discussion.
26 October 2018
Afroprojection #1: The Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When The Universe Collapsed, a proposal on parallel dimensions and black psychiatry.
08 March 2014
In 1997, 17-year old Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank and went to prison for it; then he went to NYU film school and made this movie about his life.
26 January 2019
The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure, and sublimation are nonnegotiable.
17 March 2017
Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode.
08 July 2021
When LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over the A.
29 January 2019
Nowhere, Nobody is a reflection of the life and perspective of Earl Sweatshirt. Through sheer symbiosis, they also reflect the life and perspective of co-writer and director Naima Ramos-Chapman, whose Afrosurrealist vision helped give his latest album, Some Rap Songs, new life.
13 November 2018
A restless young woman yearns to escape the confines of romance in order to find her superpower.
31 December 2014
This dreamlike fusion of political thriller and science-fiction fantasia is set to original music by Beyoncé.
28 July 2010
Directed by Terence Nance, the film addresses the detachment we all battle, when faced with the the world's overwhelming issues.
01 May 2011
Mumin, a precocious young boy, makes the long trip to Accra from his home in Ghana’s rural northern region.
25 January 2019
Valentina, a day-walking Black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, finds it difficult to suppress her bloodlust when a new woman is introduced to her estranged twin daughters.
12 February 2021
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
27 July 2016
Morgan and Jean work well together as true crime podcasters because they didn’t work well, at all, as a couple.
21 June 2012
Rashad manipulates his kid brother into leaving for school early on the one morning that changes the rest of their lives.
18 October 2007
Prom nears and things seem to be spiraling out of control for the typically composed Isatu. In this coming of age story, West African tradition conflicts with American idealism as Isatu is forced to reassess her idea of the perfect dress.
18 March 2022
At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place.
27 January 2019
Paloma, the new girl at an esteemed prep school, is drawn into the daily aggressions of warring senior class factions.
12 March 2023
On her wedding day, all that stands between a young woman and marital bliss with her soon-to-be husband is surviving the chaos and expectations of family and friends, each intensifying her spiraling panic.
26 January 2020
Chronicling the life of Lay'n Pipe, a 47 foot TopGun Cigarette speedboat, from its conception through the end of human civilization.
21 September 2018
A man is trapped in a mine shaft by his vengeful brother while his daughter embarks on a magical journey to rescue him.
01 January 2017
A look at modern relationships and the many forms they take. Stella and Ian have an unwedding ceremony to honor what they’ve shared coming to an end.
04 May 2013
A unique young boy goes on a spiritual journey while honoring his late grandfather with the help of a mystical neighbor.
23 August 2017
The above is a performance during which I google the phrase "1 year old black boy" ascending in age to the age of 18.
05 August 2016
"is a performance during which I google the phrase '1 year old black girl' ascending in age to the age of 18.
01 March 2017
The above is a performance during which I google the phrase "1 year old black boy" ascending in age to the age of 18.
23 March 2015
"is a performance during which I google the phrase "1 year old black girl" ascending in age to the age of 18.
01 January 2015
Charlie hosts a Jessica at his home hoping to progress their relationship, but the date goes terribly wrong when they are interrupted by an unusual force.
01 January 2017
Two lives intersect in a dream. We have come to explore the wreck, the thing itself, and not the myth.
10 August 2018
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur.
16 November 2023
"I swear, I wanted to make a “visual album” but this is literally the way the wind blew me this time.
05 November 2021
This new work was made especially for the room by Jenn Nkiru, a British-born filmmaker of Nigerian descent.
30 March 2017
When filmmaker Will Lautzenheiser's limbs are amputated, his life is derailed and he turns to stand-up comedy as therapy.
09 June 2013
A true story behind the notorious Miami face-eating cannibal and how the Miami Heat won the NBA title in 2012 despite one of their star players being an interstellar prince who was called away to do battle with evil foes bent on finally making the Internet completely useless.
17 July 2019
In the three years since her seminal album "A Seat at the Table", Solange has broadened her artistic reach, expanding her work to museum installations, unconventional live performances, and striking videos.
21 July 2019
The lives of three LGBTQ homeless youths who congregate on Christopher St. in New York City.
13 March 2026
A troubled drummer crashes with his sister in Boston and rediscovers his passion through street performing.
09 August 2017
A Brooklyn based artist moves to Paris to get married and start a new life. As an old life of crime catches up to him, he enters the depths of Paris' underground art and spiritual drug scenes to settle a score.
22 October 2016
In a dystopian future where people live nocturnally to avoid the harmful rays of the sun, a young black girl unravels the lie that has kept her and her sister in the dark.
15 January 2013
The official music video for Mélissa Laveaux's 2013 single "Postman" (from the album Dying is a Wild Night).
01 October 2016
Marseille, today. Aminata works as a hairdresser in an Afro hairdressing salon, Badara works as mechanic.
10 February 2010
A look at the deep-seated roots of our feelings.
09 September 2019
Edited record of performance conducted at SFFilm; posted on Vimeo.
03 February 2009
No Ward is a short documentary about the forced migration of New Orleans residents to cities in Texas.
09 February 2015
This documentary profiles contemporary artists Wangechi Mutu, Barron Claiborne, and Sanford Biggers. Each monologue is a reflection of their life experiences, letting the viewer discover how their observations have shaped the art they create.
30 January 2012
A quixotic artist hypothesizes about why he feels bad when a mystery girl stands him up. The event prompts him to ask: what's the content of a momentary feeling?
01 January 2014
Extra-celestial beings escape the vagabondary bound to their psyche on foot. Short film by Terence Nance, with music by Sanford Biggers’ concept band Moon Medicine who have been described as “a remedy for saddity, an anecdote for the overly analytic.
24 March 2015
American civil rights attorney John Burris lends his sonorous voice to "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" director Terence Nance’s imaginative and moving (and brilliantly edited) anti-police-brutality video in support of the non-violent Blackout Black Friday protest.
04 June 2016
A young woman dealing with the psychological aftermath of sexual violence shuffles between experiences both mundane and extraordinary as she attempts to leave her New York City apartment.
01 January 2013
A Short film about a contemporary milliner in NYC.
29 September 2014
"It's a performance during which I google the phrase "1 year old black boy" ascending in age to the age of 18.
01 January 2012
Everything Absolutely follows a lady out on a date with a guy. A poster, parents, and pesto all somehow find its way into this epic & intimate journey.
04 August 2019
Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot—the kind you keep playing back in your head but not quite ever remembering right, until it starts to look like something else.
08 November 2016
A portrait of Ryann Holmes, community organizer and co-founder of bklyn boihood, un/doing and reframing masculinity.
01 September 2019
If grinding in the bustling streets of NYC isn't enough for a Broadway actress, an uninvited guest in her apartment might be just the thing to put her over the edge.
22 January 2013
A short film produced for Cody ChesnuTT’s 2012 album "Landing on a Hundred".
01 January 2017
Music video for the Neo-soul singer, Nick Hakim.
