Terence Nance
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.
Fotos
Filmes (66)
Downbeat
2026 · Carter
André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening)
2023 · Director
The Young Wife
2023 · Music, Original Music Composer
Master
2022 · Executive Producer
Out / Side of Time
2021 · Executive Producer
Space Jam: A New Legacy
2021 · Executive Producer, Story, Screenplay
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021 · Main Title Designer
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name
2021 · Executive Producer
18 Black Girls and Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $9 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
2020 · Director
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $8 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
2020 · Director
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
2020 · Director, Writer
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $7 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
2019 · Director
Steve
2019 · Executive Producer
Guisado on Sunset
2019 · Editor, Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Pier Kids
2019 · Executive Producer
Solange: When I Get Home
2019 · Director
Selah and the Spades
2019 · Songs, Executive Producer
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
2019 · Director, Story, Editor, Sound Designer
Suicide by Sunlight
2019 · Executive Producer
Piu Piu
2018 · Producer, Executive Producer
Afroprojection #1: The Sweet Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When the Universe Collapsed
2018
The Burial of Kojo
2018 · Associate Producer, Producer
Madeline's Madeline
2018 · Thanks
White People Won't Save You
2018 · Director
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $6 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
2017 · Director
The Paris Project
2017 · Executive Producer
Stumped
2017 · Thanks
The Show About the Show
2017 · Tony
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $5 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
2017 · Director
Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky
2017 · Director
Lost & Found
2017
The Wreck Itself
2017
Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You
2017 · Director
Ryann Holmes
2016 · Executive Producer
They Charge for the Sun
2016 · Screenplay, Director
Univitellin
2016 · Writer, Director, Producer
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $4 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
2016 · Director
Women Who Kill
2016 · Darren
And Nothing Happened
2016 · Executive Producer, Director of Photography
Swimming in Your Skin Again
2015 · Director, Producer
Blackout: John Burris Speaks
2015 · Director, Writer
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $2 in an edition of $97 Quadrillion
2015 · Director
The Dig - You And I and You
2015 · Director, Writer, Editor
The Triptych
2015 · Director
House Date
2015 · Thanks
Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All
2014 · Director, Writer
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are Thus Spiritual Machines: $1 in an edition of $97 Quadrillion
2014 · Director
Evolution of a Criminal
2014 · Title Designer
Moon Medicine - Moonrising
2014 · Director, Writer
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse
2013 · Christopher Bosh / Star Prince Akilobataar
Sweet Honey Chile'
2013 · Title Designer
Cody ChesnuTT - Till I Met Thee
2013 · Director
Mélissa Laveaux - Postman
2013 · Director
Frenel
2013 · Director, Writer
Sleep
2012 · Graphic Designer
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
2012 · Director, Screenplay, Animation, Producer, Editor
Everything Absolutely
2012 · Director
Native Sun
2011 · Director, Producer
Pharoahe Monch - Clap (One Day)
2011 · Director
The Feeling You Get
2011 · Production Design
Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe
2010 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
How Would You Feel?
2010 · Director, Screenplay, Producer, Original Music Composer, Editor
No Ward
2009 · Director, Producer, Editor, Publicist, Director of Photography
Exorcising Rejection
2008 · Director
Word?! I Didn't Know (__) Could Get Down Like That!
2008 · Editor
African Booty Scratcher
2007 · Lance, Music
