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.
37 directing credits · 17 acting credits
Directing · 37
Random Acts of Flyness
2018
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
2020
Solange: When I Get Home
2019
They Charge for the Sun
2016
The Triptych
2015
André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening)
2023
Earl Sweatshirt: Nowhere, Nobody
2019
Swimming in Your Skin Again
2015
Univitellin
2016
Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All
2014
Guisado on Sunset
2019
Native Sun
2011
No Ward
2009
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
Pharoahe Monch - Clap (One Day)
2011
Cody ChesnuTT - Till I Met Thee
2013
Blackout: John Burris Speaks
2015
Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky
2017
How Would You Feel?
2010
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
2019
White People Won't Save You
2018
Frenel
2013
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
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
Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe
2010
Everything Absolutely
2012
Mélissa Laveaux - Postman
2013
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
The Dig - You And I and You
2015
Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You
2017
Moon Medicine - Moonrising
2014
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
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
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
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
Exorcising Rejection
2008
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
2012
Acting · 17
Random Acts of Flyness
2018
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
2025
The Show About the Show
2015
The Show About the Show
2017
Lost & Found
2017
Downbeat
2026
Women Who Kill
2016
African Booty Scratcher
2007
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse
2013
Guisado on Sunset
2019
Lost & Found
2017
The Wreck Itself
2017
Afroprojection #1: The Sweet Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When the Universe Collapsed
2018
Piu Piu
2018
The Paris Project
2017
How Would You Feel?
2010
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
2012