Terence Nance
Biography
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.
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Movies (46)
Downbeat
2026
André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening)
Director (Directing)
2023
The Young Wife
Music (Sound)
2023
Master
Executive Producer (Production)
2022
Out / Side of Time
Executive Producer (Production)
2021
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Executive Producer (Production)
2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
Main Title Designer (Art)
2021
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name
Executive Producer (Production)
2021
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 (Directing)
2020
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 (Directing)
2020
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
Director (Directing)
2020
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 (Directing)
2019
Steve
Executive Producer (Production)
2019
Guisado on Sunset
2019
Pier Kids: The Life
Executive Producer (Production)
2019
Solange: When I Get Home
Director (Directing)
2019
Earl Sweatshirt: Nowhere, Nobody
Director (Directing)
2019
Selah and the Spades
Songs (Sound)
2019
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
Director (Directing)
2019
Suicide by Sunlight
Executive Producer (Production)
2019
Piu Piu
2018
The Burial of Kojo
Associate Producer (Production)
2018
Afroprojection #1: The Sweet Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When the Universe Collapsed
2018
Madeline's Madeline
Thanks (Crew)
2018
White People Won't Save You
Director (Directing)
2018
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 (Directing)
2017
The Paris Project
2017
Stumped
Thanks (Crew)
2017
The Show About the Show
as Tony
2017
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 (Directing)
2017
Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky
Director (Directing)
2017
Lost & Found
2017
The Wreck Itself
2017
Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You
Director (Directing)
2017
Ryann Holmes
Executive Producer (Production)
2016
They Charge for the Sun
Screenplay (Writing)
2016
Univitellin
Writer (Writing)
2016
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 (Directing)
2016
Women Who Kill
as Darren
2016
And Nothing Happened
Executive Producer (Production)
2016
Swimming in Your Skin Again
Director (Directing)
2015
Blackout: John Burris Speaks
Director (Directing)
2015
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 (Directing)
2015
The Dig - You And I and You
Director (Directing)
2015
The Triptych
Director (Directing)
2015
House Date
Thanks (Crew)
2015
