Terence Nance
Directing
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…
Filmography
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Downbeat
2026
André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening)
2023
The Young Wife
2023
Master
2022
Out / Side of Time
Out / Side of Time
2021
Space Jam: A New Legacy
2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name
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
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 Girls Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and are thus Spiritual Machines: $8 in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion
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
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
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
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
Steve
2019
Guisado on Sunset
2019
Pier Kids
2019
Solange: When I Get Home
2019
Earl Sweatshirt: Nowhere, Nobody
2019
Selah and the Spades
2019
Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself
2019
Suicide by Sunlight
2019
Piu Piu
2018
Afroprojection #1: The Sweet Atmosphere Phased at 120° and Went Blank When the Universe Collapsed
2018
The Burial of Kojo
2018
Random Acts of Flyness
2018
White People Won't Save You
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
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
The Paris Project
2017
Lost & Found
Lost & Found
2017
The Show About the Show
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
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
Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky
2017
Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You
2017
Lost & Found
Lost & Found
2017
The Wreck Itself
The Wreck Itself
2017
Ryann Holmes
2016
They Charge for the Sun
2016
Univitellin
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
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
Women Who Kill
2016
And Nothing Happened
2016
The Show About the Show
2015
Swimming in Your Skin Again
2015
Blackout: John Burris Speaks
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
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
The Dig - You And I and You
2015
The Triptych
2015
Beyoncé - Their Fall Our All
2014
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
Evolution of a Criminal
2014
Moon Medicine - Moonrising
2014
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse
2013
Sweet Honey Chile'
2013
Cody ChesnuTT - Till I Met Thee
2013
Mélissa Laveaux - Postman
2013
Frenel
2013
Sleep
2012
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
2012
Everything Absolutely
Everything Absolutely
2012
Native Sun
2011
Pharoahe Monch - Clap (One Day)
2011
The Feeling You Get
The Feeling You Get
2011
Blitz the Ambassador - Something to Believe
2010
How Would You Feel?
2010
No Ward
2009
Exorcising Rejection
Exorcising Rejection
2008
Word?! I Didn't Know (__) Could Get Down Like That!
Word?! I Didn't Know (__) Could Get Down Like That!
2008
African Booty Scratcher
2007