Nance's dazzling "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" anything
but oversimplified  By Sean Burns  Share this Story:  Terence
Nance (left) and Namik Minter in "An Oversimplification of Her
Beauty."  “In layman’s terms, I got Friend Zoned,” Terence Nance
announces late into An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, summing
up in seven words this rambunctious multimedia kaleidoscope of
missed connections and unrequited affection. Audacious, playful
and sometimes quite sad, it’s also beyond self-indulgent and
wears a little thin over the long haul. But still, what a
dazzling debut.  The title itself is something of a hoot, as
there’s nothing oversimplified about this picture. It’s expanded
from an autobiographical short film called How Would You Feel?
that Nance made in 2010 as a devotional object for his dreamgirl
(Namik Minter, whose name is redacted in the copious onscreen
text, but cheerfully plays herself all the same). They’re
friends without benefits, and Nance longs for so much more,
bemoaning her “serious co