One of the hypotheses present in my more recent work is that Black cinema came through cinema language, visualize, unseen/spiritual beings and the environments they emerge from.

For the first screening, I’ll show some of my recent work from random accent and other pieces. I will talk through them with my wife and Creative a partner Atheel ElMalik. Subsequent screenings will be of work that shares a similar hypothesis.

Terence Etc. (also known as Terence Nance) is an artist born and raised in Dallas, TX. Terence’s work exists on the thresholds between artistic forms, yielding an extensive multidisciplinary practice. 

In 2020, Terence released his first EP “Things I Never Had” followed in 2022 by his first album “V O R T E X” (released via Brainfeeder). The music  is transcendent, ornate, and playful and tells interdimensional love stories from the early 21st century. 

In the world of cinema - Terence has directed music videos for André 3000, Solange and Earl Sweatshirt. He also 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. He created two seasons of his Peabody Award-winning HBO series, “Random Acts of Flyness” in 2018 and 2022 the second season was described by The New Yorker as “a work of music-like Afrofuturism, the closest thing I’ve seen to a cinematic reflection of the tones and moods of the music of Sun Ra, complete with the mythopoetic dimension.”

Most recently -  Terence completed his first feature length score for Tayarisha Poe’s The Young Wife. He also directed the visual component to André 3000's GRAMMY-nominated album “New Blue Sun”, a 90-minute film that complements the album's themes titled “Listening to the Sun” and opened his first solo exhibition entitled SWARM at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA. The exhibition was accompanied by a Live performance of V O R T E X which will be released in January of 2025. Terence is now working on his next album and a yet to be titled feature film. 

Atheel Elmalik (she/her, writer, director) is a Sudanese writer and filmmaker interested in exploring liberated relationships of people to land and one another through stories of movement and migration, intergenerational healing, and connection to the sentience of the more than human world. Atheel comes to this work with a degree in Anthropology from Stanford University, a career in curatorial positions at art institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as producing, AD-ing and script supervising work in film & television. Based between Doha & shifting elsewheres, Atheel is currently developing her first narrative short film, Sundial.

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