Terence Nance

Known for DirectingBorn 1982-02-10 (age 44)Dallas, Texas, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Sleep

The Show About the Show

Solange: When I Get Home

The Show About the Show

Evolution of a Criminal

Judas and the Black Messiah

Swimming in Your Skin Again

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name

The Dig - You And I and You

Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All

Space Jam: A New Legacy

The Burial of Kojo

Madeline's Madeline

Native Sun

No Ward

Univitellin

Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse

Afroprojection #1: The Sweet Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When the Universe Collapsed

The Young Wife

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

Selah and the Spades

Master

Suicide by Sunlight

Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia

Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky

Women Who Kill

André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening)

Random Acts of Flyness

And Nothing Happened

Pier Kids

Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television

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

White People Won't Save You

Downbeat

Out / Side of Time

18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $8 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion

Guisado on Sunset

Earl Sweatshirt: Nowhere, Nobody

Steve

Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself

18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $7 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion

Piu Piu

The Paris Project

Lost & Found

The Wreck Itself

Lost & Found

Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You

Stumped