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 avantgarde 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 RamosChapman 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 Nances 2012 film An Oversimplification of Her Beauty incorporates an earlier short film animation and an original score It premiered in the Sundance Film Festivals New Frontier section in 2012 and was also screened as part of the 2012 New DirectorsNew Films Festival in New York Scholar Terri Francis has described it as an experimental filmthat 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 Nances 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 studioproducers 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 fulllength album V O R T E X was released on August 19 2022 under the Brainfeeder label