Terence Nance

Director

February 10, 1982 (44 years)

Dallas, Texas, USA

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 K…

Filmography

4.2

Random Acts of Flyness

Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.

4.6

Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia

Chronicling the life of Lay'n Pipe, a 47 foot TopGun Cigarette speedboat, from its conception through the end of human civilization. It's not just a speedboat ride, it's a Miami adventure.

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Pharoahe Monch - Clap (One Day)

Short film about a police raid gone horribly wrong, featuring music by Pharoahe Monch.

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Earl Sweatshirt: Nowhere, Nobody

Nowhere, Nobody is a reflection of the life and perspective of Earl Sweatshirt. Through sheer symbiosis, they also reflect the life and perspective of co-writer and director Naima Ramos-Chapman, whose Afrosurrealist vision helped give his latest album, Some Rap Songs, new life.

7.0

Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All

This dreamlike fusion of political thriller and science-fiction fantasia is set to original music by Beyoncé.

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They Charge for the Sun

In a dystopian future where people live nocturnally to avoid the harmful rays of the sun, a young black girl unravels the lie that has kept her and her sister in the dark.

6.0

No Ward

No Ward is a short documentary about the forced migration of New Orleans residents to cities in Texas. The film juxtaposes the migrations that occurred as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Gustav in 2008.

7.0

The Dig - You And I and You

This hypnotically surreal dance film is set to a single by the psychedelic rock band the Dig.

8.0

Solange: When I Get Home

In the three years since her seminal album "A Seat at the Table", Solange has broadened her artistic reach, expanding her work to museum installations, unconventional live performances, and striking videos. With her fourth album, "When I Get Home", the singer continues to push her vision forward with an exploration of roots and their lifelong influence. In Solange's case, that's the culturally rich Houston of her childhood. Some will know these references - candy paint, the late legend DJ Screw - via the city's mid-aughts hip-hop explosion, but through Solange's lens, these same touchstones are elevated to high art.

4.5

André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening)

"I swear, I wanted to make a “visual album” but this is literally the way the wind blew me this time."

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Cody ChesnuTT - Till I Met Thee

A short film produced for Cody ChesnuTT’s 2012 album "Landing on a Hundred".

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Frenel

A Short film about a contemporary milliner in NYC.

6.0

Native Sun

Mumin, a precocious young boy, makes the long trip to Accra from his home in Ghana’s rural northern region. He leaves having just experienced his mothers death, her last words to him a directive to travel to Accra and find the father he has never met. Along the journey he experiences Ghana as only a child can and in so doing expands our view of what the country is and what it will be.

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Blackout: John Burris Speaks

American civil rights attorney John Burris lends his sonorous voice to "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" director Terence Nance’s imaginative and moving (and brilliantly edited) anti-police-brutality video in support of the non-violent Blackout Black Friday protest.

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How Would You Feel?

A look at the deep-seated roots of our feelings.

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The Triptych

This documentary profiles contemporary artists Wangechi Mutu, Barron Claiborne, and Sanford Biggers. Each monologue is a reflection of their life experiences, letting the viewer discover how their observations have shaped the art they create.

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Moon Medicine - Moonrising

Extra-celestial beings escape the vagabondary bound to their psyche on foot. Short film by Terence Nance, with music by Sanford Biggers’ concept band Moon Medicine who have been described as “a remedy for saddity, an anecdote for the overly analytic. A balm for the phases, a lunar liniment.”

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Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You

Music video for the Neo-soul singer, Nick Hakim.

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Guisado on Sunset

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 to look like something else.

7.3

Swimming in Your Skin Again

Drenched in the heat, spirit and landscape of South Florida, Swimming in Your Skin Again celebrates the spiritual feminine and coming of age. Guided by female inspirations we tour the ritual anchorages of life in and around Miami: the Catholic church, the swamp, the backyard, the water.