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"[A]stoundingly beautiful…. [S]ublime" Filmmaker Magazine

"Terence Nance’s New Film Is a Surreal Trip Through the Swamps, Pools, and Black Churches of Florida" Vice

"With its blend of animation and live action, Terence Nance’s first feature, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, from 2012, revealed him to be one of the world’s most imaginative young directors. His twenty-three minute film Swimming in Your Skin Again… goes even further, with its allusive collage of live action and special effects, centered on music and dance…. [B]y way of ecstatic imagery, thrillingly balletic performances, and a mighty sense of humor, [Nance] sketches a personal mythology of black American history and culture." The New Yorker

"Terence Nance premiered [his debut feature] An Oversimplification of Her Beauty at Sundance in 2012, to much acclaim…. It was funny and moving and necessary, both as a reminder that young black filmmakers aren’t an emerging trend but have always been here, and that experimental filmmaking can be accessible, even relatable. Though Nance hasn’t yet directed another full-length, all that he’s created since, whether politically charged and pertinent… or idyllic… toy with elements of the sublime. Swimming in Your Skin Again, a moving and magical realist poem, is no different…. Even in its dreamlike roaming, it is intuitive and connective--like breathing or like birth." Hyperallergic