Tony Oursler Movies
- 2023
The Teacher
The Teacher02023HD
A short film showcasing the song The Teacher from the Foo Fighters' album 'But Here We Are'
- 2016
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present7.62016HD
Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.
- 1985
Making the Nature Scene
Making the Nature Scene01985HD
Long before Kim Gordon was a cooler-than-thou multimedia artist in Body/Head, she was a cooler-than-thou multimedia artist in Sonic Youth. In the...
- 1980
Garage Sale II
Garage Sale II01980HD
Featuring performances by artists Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley, Garage Sale II moves between a couple’s sexually dysfunctional relationship and...
- 2011
New York Influence City
New York Influence City102011HD
A series of reflections on New York City by key figures of its prominent art scene. The City is considered in light of the history, influence and...
- 1985
EVOL
EVOL01985HD
In EVOL (love spelled backwards), the audience is voyeur, peering into the delirious and erotic dreams of a young man (Oursler). We drift with him...
- 2022
Exquisite Moving Corpse
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The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists...
- 2016
Imponderable
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Presented in a “5-D” cinematic environment utilizing a contemporary form of Pepper’s ghost—a 19th-century phantasmagoric...
- 1993
The Genius
The Genius51993HD
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...
- 1987
Sucker
Sucker01987HD
Blood and transcendence are themes that permeate Sucker, with its incarnations of religious iconography and sexuality. Life and death, good and evil...
- 1981
Grand Mal
Grand Mal01981HD
"Oursler’s thematic concerns betray classic Freudian anxieties about sex and death. In Grand Mal, the hero takes a convoluted odyssey through a...
- 1990
On Our Own
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As recent state cut-backs force many mental patients out into the real world, Tony Oursler and Joe Gibbons team up to address psychiatric...
- 2008
Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?
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AWGTHTGTWTA (Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?) is one of a recent series of single-channel video works in which Oursler explores...
- 1983
Spinout
Spinout01983HD
Spinout is an apocalyptic tale of a world spinning out of control to nowhere. Space travel, astrology, spirals, the universe, catastrophe and madness...
- 1980
The Loner
The Loner01980HD
The Loner is a psychosexual journey through the dark landscapes of Oursler's insular narrative universe. The tape's paranoid, tormented protagonist...
- 1988
Joyride (TM)
Joyride (TM)01988HD
As guardians of the cultural torch, theme parks and museums herd millions of thrill-seekers through a mental haze towards a re-shaped history and a...
- 1982
Son of Oil
Son of Oil01982HD
Son of Oil is a cautionary tale about the decline of Western civilization, as only Oursler could envision it. Oil is the central metaphor around...
- 1979
Life of Phillis
Life of Phillis01979HD
Life of Phillis is one of Oursler's earliest video narratives. In this psychosexual, low-tech epic, Oursler creates an outrageous theatrical world,...
- 2001
9/11
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9/11 is a first-hand, harrowing document of the events of September 11th and their immediate aftermath, as observed by the artist. As the tragedy...
- 1980
The Weak Bullet
The Weak Bullet01980HD
Told with raw eccentricity and grotesque humor, The Weak Bullet is an ironic tale in which the trajectory of the eponymous bullet propels a bizarre...