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Title An oversimplification of her beauty / Media MVMT presents a Variance Films and Cinema Guild release ; a film by Terence Nance ; produced by Chanelle Pearson, Andrew Corkin, James Bartlett, Terence Nance ; co-executive produced by MoCADA Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts ; written & directed by Terence Nance.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Cinema Guild, [2013]
©2013

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Audio Visual  DVD OVERSIMPLIFICATION    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with a black and white sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical Dolby Digital 5.1 rda
NTSC rda
video file DVD video region 1 rda
System Details DVD; NTSC, region 1; 16:9 widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio) presentation, Letterbox for 16x9 TV; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Note Title and credits from screen.
Cast Chanelle Pearson, Terence Nance, Namik Minter, Jc Cain, Vickie Washington, Alisa Becher, Rebecca Pinard, Arin Lawrence, Shanté Cozier, Dexter Jones.
Performer Narration by Reg E. Cathey, Terence Nance, Namik Minter, Onyinyechi Amanze.
Credits Art and animation direction, Terence Nance ; cinematographers, Matthew E. Bray, Shawn Peters ; editor, Terence Nance ; illustrator, Terence Nance ; original music by Terence Nance, Flying Lotus.
Note "Inspired by Namik Minter"--Credits.
Originally produced as a feature film in 2012.
Audience Rating: Not rated.
Summary With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Contents An oversimplification of her beauty (2012, 87 min.) -- Exorcising rejection (2008, 8 min.) -- How would you feel? (2006, 7 min.).
Note Special features: Optional audio commentary with director Terence Nance; optional audio commentary with actress Namik Minter; Exorcising rejection, a short film by Terence Nance; How would you feel? the original short film by Terence Nance; deleted scenes; theatrical trailer.
Awards "Gotham award winner best film not playing at a theater near you". "Moma/FSLC new directors new films". "Official selection Sundance Film Festival". "Best director winner athens international film festival". "International film festival rotherdam".
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Unrequited love -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Unrequited love. (OCoLC)fst01162027
Genre/Form Live-action/animation films.
Experimental films.
Independent films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Animated films. (OCoLC)fst01726127
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Experimental films. (OCoLC)fst01710354
Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
Independent films. (OCoLC)fst01710572
Live-action/animation films. (OCoLC)fst01750213
Animated films.
Feature films.
Added Author Nance, Terence, film director, screenwriter, film producer, animator, illustrator, art director, editor of moving image work, composer, narrator, actor.
Becher, Alisa, film director, actor.
Pearson, Chanelle, film producer, actor.
Corkin, Andrew, 1985- film producer.
Bartlett, James (Producer), film producer.
Jay-Z, 1969- film producer.
Cain, Jc., actor.
Washington, Vickie, actor.
Pinard, Rebecca, actor.
Lawrence, Arin, actor.
Cozier, Shante', actor.
Cathey, Reg E., narrator.
Minter, Namik, 1982- narrator, actor.
Amanze, Onyinyechi, narrator.
Terence Etc., composer (expression), performer.
Flying Lotus, 1983- composer (expression), performer.
Media MVMT (Firm), presenter, production company.
Variance Films, film distributor.
Cinema Guild, film distributor.
Note Formerly titled: How would u feel?
Added Title How would you feel?
ISBN 078151441X
9780781514415
Standard No. 881164000705
Music No. CG 000140 Cinema Guild
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