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.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 0.722 |
Birthday | 1982-02-10 |
Place of Birth | Dallas, Texas, USA |
Also Known As | Terence Etc., Terence Etc, Ummah Chroma, |
2012
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
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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 momenta...
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
2013
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse
5.8/4
'Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse' is the true story behind the notorious Miami face-eating cannibal and how the Miami Heat won the NB...
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Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse
2007
African Booty Scratcher
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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 confli...
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African Booty Scratcher
2017
Lost & Found
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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....
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Lost & Found
2017
The Show About the Show
8/1
Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a te...
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The Show About the Show
2017
The Paris Project
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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'...
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The Paris Project
2019
Guisado on Sunset
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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...
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Guisado on Sunset
2018
Piu Piu
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A restless young woman yearns to escape the confines of romance in order to find her superpower.
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Piu Piu
2016
Women Who Kill
4.9/25
Morgan and Jean work well together as true crime podcasters because they didn’t work well, at all, as a couple. However, when Morgan strikes up a new...
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Women Who Kill
2018
Afroprojection #1: The Sweet Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When the Universe Collapsed
5.5/2
Afroprojection #1: The Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When The Universe Collapsed, a proposal on parallel dimensions and black psychiatry......
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Afroprojection #1: The Sweet Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When the Universe Collapsed
2017
The Wreck Itself
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Two lives intersect in a dream. We have come to explore the wreck, the thing itself, and not the myth.
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