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Terence Nance

Terence Nance

Director · Born 1982-02-10 · Dallas, Texas, USA

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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 bot…

Directed

  1. An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012) — Director
  2. Random Acts of Flyness (2018) — Director
  3. Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia (2020) — Director
  4. Univitellin (2016) — Director
  5. Native Sun (2011) — Director
  6. Solange: When I Get Home (2019) — Director
  7. Swimming in Your Skin Again (2015) — Director
  8. André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening) (2023) — Director
  9. No Ward (2009) — Director
  10. 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) — Director
  11. White People Won't Save You (2018) — Director
  12. Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky (2017) — Director
  13. The Dig - You And I and You (2015) — Director
  14. Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All (2014) — Director
  15. Moon Medicine - Moonrising (2014) — Director
  16. How Would You Feel? (2010) — Director
  17. Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe (2010) — Director
  18. Pharoahe Monch - Clap (One Day) (2011) — Director
  19. Everything Absolutely (2012) — Director
  20. The Triptych (2015) — Director
  21. Earl Sweatshirt: Nowhere, Nobody (2019) — Director
  22. Frenel (2013) — Director
  23. Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You (2017) — Director
  24. 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) — Director
  25. 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) — Director
  26. 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) — Director
  27. They Charge for the Sun (2016) — Director
  28. 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) — Director
  29. Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself (2019) — Director
  30. Guisado on Sunset (2019) — Director
  31. 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) — Director
  32. 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) — Director
  33. 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) — Director
  34. Mélissa Laveaux - Postman (2013) — Director
  35. Cody ChesnuTT - Till I Met Thee (2013) — Director
  36. Blackout: John Burris Speaks (2015) — Director
  37. Exorcising Rejection (2008) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Women Who Kill (2016) — Darren
  2. An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012)
  3. Random Acts of Flyness (2018) — Terence
  4. Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television (2025) — Self
  5. Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse (2013) — Christopher Bosh / Star Prince Akilobataar
  6. The Show About the Show (2015)
  7. The Show About the Show (2017) — Tony
  8. Afroprojection #1: The Sweet Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When the Universe Collapsed (2018)
  9. African Booty Scratcher (2007) — Lance
  10. The Paris Project (2017)
  11. Guisado on Sunset (2019)
  12. Lost & Found (2017)
  13. Piu Piu (2018)
  14. The Wreck Itself (2017)
  15. How Would You Feel? (2010)
  16. Downbeat (2026) — Carter
  17. Lost & Found (2017)