Terence Nance
Born: 1982-02-10 in Dallas, Texas, USA
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2025
2023
- The Young Wife ... (Music)
- André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening) ... (Director)
2022
- Master ... (Executive Producer)
2021
- Space Jam: A New Legacy ... (Executive Producer)
- Judas and the Black Messiah ... (Main Title Designer)
- Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name ... (Executive Producer)
- Out / Side of Time ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia ... (Director)
- 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)
2019
- Selah and the Spades ... (Songs)
- Suicide by Sunlight ... (Executive Producer)
- Pier Kids: The Life ... (Executive Producer)
- Steve ... (Executive Producer)
- Earl Sweatshirt: Nowhere, Nobody ... (Director)
- Solange: When I Get Home ... (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)
- Guisado on Sunset
- Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself ... (Story)
2018
- Piu Piu
- The Burial of Kojo ... (Associate Producer)
- Madeline's Madeline ... (Thanks)
- Random Acts of Flyness as Terence
- Afroprojection #1: The Sweet Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When the Universe Collapsed
- White People Won't Save You ... (Director)
2017
- Lost & Found
- The Show About the Show as Tony
- The Wreck Itself
- Lost & Found
- Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky ... (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)
- The Paris Project
- Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You ... (Director)
- 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)
- Stumped ... (Thanks)
2016
- Univitellin ... (Director)
- Ryann Holmes ... (Executive Producer)
- Women Who Kill as Darren
- And Nothing Happened ... (Director of Photography)
- They Charge for the Sun ... (Screenplay)
- 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)
2015
- Swimming in Your Skin Again ... (Director)
- The Dig - You And I and You ... (Editor)
- Blackout: John Burris Speaks ... (Director)
- The Show About the Show
- 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)
- The Triptych ... (Director)
- House Date ... (Thanks)
2014
- Evolution of a Criminal ... (Title Designer)
- Moon Medicine - Moonrising ... (Director)
- 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)
- Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All ... (Director)
2013
- Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse as Christopher Bosh / Star Prince Akilobataar
- Mélissa Laveaux - Postman ... (Director)
- Frenel ... (Director)
- Cody ChesnuTT - Till I Met Thee ... (Director)
- Sweet Honey Chile' ... (Title Designer)
2012
- Sleep ... (Graphic Designer)
- Everything Absolutely ... (Director)
- An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
2011
- Pharoahe Monch - Clap (One Day) ... (Director)
- Native Sun ... (Producer)
- The Feeling You Get ... (Production Design)
2010
2009
- No Ward ... (Director)
2008
- Exorcising Rejection ... (Director)
- Word?! I Didn't Know (__) Could Get Down Like That! ... (Editor)
2007
- African Booty Scratcher as Lance