Terence Nance
Terence Nance is an Artist, Musician, and Filmmaker born in Dallas, Texas in what was then referred to as the State-Thomas community. Nance wrote, directed, scored, and starred in his first feature film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013. In 2014, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow. In the summer of 2018, Terence’s Peabody award-winning television series Random Acts of Flyness debuted on HBO to great critical acclaim, and was renewed for a second season by the network. His latest release as a musician, Vortex+, came out in early 2025.
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Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq
Sometimes what you really want to say about Spike Lee and his new movie only comes out when you're killing time on Gchat...
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
In which the author fulfills his responsibility to respond to the film by combining well-reasoned observations with an extended ice cream metaphor.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Gaspar Noé’s Love
Probably the only examination of this film to reference Puff Daddy, Key & Peele, MTV reality shows, Rick Alverson and Michael Bay.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall
A filmmaker writes about Emmerich's much-derided historical drama both before and after watching it.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton
A rap response to the box-office hit biopic about N.W.A.’s cultural ascent.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
In which the author fulfills his responsibility to respond to the film by combining well-reasoned observations with an extended ice cream metaphor.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Ryan Gosling’s Lost River
From the email archives of the auteur Terence Nance, a few constructive notes on a cut of a movie prior to its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival...
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows
Two Kiwi comic geniuses mash up Christopher Guest and the vampire genre to create a cinematic sitcom about the bourgeois undead.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
A letter from one filmmaker to another, suggesting an ongoing tutelage and mentorship that would take the form of a letter-writing exchange.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings
The latest (problematic) biblical epic is deconstructed on an epic scale.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Jeremy Xido’s Death Metal Angola
The traumatic aftermath of colonial rule is explored in this vérité documentary about an Angolan orphanage and the rock concerts it organizes.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Tim Sutton’s Memphis
This elegiac portrait of the Southern city excels by being quietly, unobtrusively observational rather than wanting to be part of the action.











