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.
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse
(Christopher Bosh / Star Prince Akilobataar)
African Booty Scratcher
(Lance)
Guisado on Sunset
Lost & Found
The Show About the Show
(Tony)
The Paris Project
Piu Piu
Women Who Kill
(Darren)
Afroprojection #1: The Sweet Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When the Universe Collapsed
The Wreck Itself
How Would You Feel?
Random Acts of Flyness
(Terence)
The Show About the Show
Lost & Found
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
(Self)
Space Jam: A New Legacy
(Executive Producer)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
(Director)
Judas and the Black Messiah
(Main Title Designer)
Space Jam: A New Legacy
(Screenplay)
Space Jam: A New Legacy
(Story)
Moon Medicine - Moonrising
(Director)
Ryann Holmes
(Executive Producer)
André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening)
(Director)
No Ward
(Director)
Native Sun
(Producer)
Native Sun
(Director)
Swimming in Your Skin Again
(Director)
African Booty Scratcher
(Music)
No Ward
(Editor)
No Ward
(Producer)
They Charge for the Sun
(Screenplay)
Earl Sweatshirt: Nowhere, Nobody
(Director)
How Would You Feel?
(Original Music Composer)
Frenel
(Writer)
Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe
(Screenplay)
Pharoahe Monch - Clap (One Day)
(Director)
Steve
(Executive Producer)
The Triptych
(Director)
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name
(Executive Producer)
How Would You Feel?
(Screenplay)
How Would You Feel?
(Editor)
How Would You Feel?
(Director)
Everything Absolutely
(Director)
Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe
(Director)
Frenel
(Director)
Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe
(Editor)
Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You
(Director)
How Would You Feel?
(Producer)
Pier Kids: The Life
(Executive Producer)
The Feeling You Get
(Production Design)
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $8 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
(Director)
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
(Director)
Selah and the Spades
(Songs)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
(Screenplay)
Guisado on Sunset
(Editor)
Sleep
(Graphic Designer)
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $6 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
(Director)
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $5 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
(Director)
Evolution of a Criminal
(Title Designer)
Sweet Honey Chile'
(Title Designer)
The Paris Project
(Executive Producer)
Moon Medicine - Moonrising
(Writer)
Word?! I Didn't Know (__) Could Get Down Like That!
(Editor)
Stumped
(Thanks)
Out / Side of Time
(Executive Producer)
No Ward
(Publicist)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
(Animation)
House Date
(Thanks)
Madeline's Madeline
(Thanks)
Univitellin
(Director)
Univitellin
(Writer)
They Charge for the Sun
(Director)
The Young Wife
(Music)
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are Thus Spiritual Machines: $1 in an edition of $97 Quadrillion
(Director)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
(Producer)
Piu Piu
(Producer)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
(Editor)
Piu Piu
(Executive Producer)
Solange: When I Get Home
(Director)
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
(Story)
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
(Editor)
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
(Sound Designer)
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
(Director)
And Nothing Happened
(Director of Photography)
And Nothing Happened
(Executive Producer)
The Burial of Kojo
(Producer)
The Burial of Kojo
(Associate Producer)
Guisado on Sunset
(Writer)
Guisado on Sunset
(Director)
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
(Director)
18 Black Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $7 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
(Director)
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
(Writer)
Master
(Executive Producer)
Selah and the Spades
(Executive Producer)
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $2 in an edition of $97 Quadrillion
(Director)
18 Black Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $4 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
(Director)
White People Won't Save You
(Director)
Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky
(Director)
No Ward
(Director of Photography)
The Dig - You And I and You
(Editor)
The Dig - You And I and You
(Director)
The Dig - You And I and You
(Writer)
Guisado on Sunset
(Director of Photography)
Swimming in Your Skin Again
(Producer)
Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All
(Director)
Univitellin
(Producer)
Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All
(Writer)
Mélissa Laveaux - Postman
(Director)
Cody ChesnuTT - Till I Met Thee
(Director)
Blackout: John Burris Speaks
(Director)
Blackout: John Burris Speaks
(Writer)
Exorcising Rejection
(Director)
Suicide by Sunlight
(Executive Producer)
Random Acts of Flyness
(Director)
Random Acts of Flyness
(Editor)
Random Acts of Flyness
(Executive Producer)
Random Acts of Flyness
(Music)
Random Acts of Flyness
(Writer)
Random Acts of Flyness
(Creator)