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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Terence Nance

Terence NANCE (1982, USA) is an artist whose work consists of installations, performances, music and film. His first feature film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and won the Gotham Award 2012 for ‘Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You’. In 2014, Nance was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Several of his films have been shown previously in Rotterdam.

Filmografie

(selection) No Ward (2009, short doc), How Would You Feel? (2010), Everything Absolutely (2012, short), An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012), The Tryptich (2013, short doc series), You and I and You (2015, short), Swimming in Your Skin Again (2015, short), Univitellin (2016, short), They Charge for the Sun (2016, short), Guisado on Sunset (2017, short), Random Acts of Flyness (2018, TV series)

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Terence Nance at IFFR

  • AS TOLD TO G/D THYSELF

    The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure and sublimation are non-negotiable.

    • Synergetic

  • G/D THYSELF: Spirit Strategy On Raising Free Black Children

    This ritual space invites you to explore metaphysical transcendence, spirituality and self-expression and use the space for their own rituals and trad

    • Synergetic

  • Random Acts of Flyness: They Won’t Go When I Go (Director’s Cut)

    A late-night series exploring evergreen cultural idioms such as patriarchy, white supremacy and sensuality from a new, thought-provoking perspective.

    • Synergetic

  • Guisado on Sunset

    Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot. The kind you can’t quite remember right, until it starts to look like something else.

    • Synergetic

  • 195 Lewis

    A web series about the loves and challenges faced by a group of black, queer, polyamorous women in Brooklyn.

    • Black Rebels

  • They Charge for the Sun

    In a dystopian future, people live in darkness to protect themselves from the harmful rays of the sun. Except for a naughty little black girl.

    • Black Rebels

  • 195 Lewis

    ‘Polyamory’ means responsible and consensual non-monogamy. How does it work when you’re black, queer and living in New York?

    • Episodic/Epidemic
    • Perspectives

  • Univitellin

    A modern Romeo and Juliet meet on a city bus. Of course they fall head over heels in love. A classic story in a far-from-classic reworking.

    • Voices
    • Voices Short

  • Swimming in Your Skin Again

    Intensely musical film about the spiritual anchorages of life in and around Miami. Drenched in the heat, spirit and landscape of Southern Florida.

    • Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films

  • An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

    Overwhelming debut about the doubts of the director Nance about his relationship with a beautiful young woman. He combines personal experiences with f

    • Bright Future