Tony Oursler Movies

  • 2023
    The Teacher

    The Teacher

    The Teacher

    02023HD

    A short film showcasing the song The Teacher from the Foo Fighters' album 'But Here We Are'

    The Teacher
  • 1993
    The Genius

    The Genius

    The Genius

    51993HD

    A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

    The Genius
  • 2022
    Exquisite Moving Corpse

    Exquisite Moving Corpse

    Exquisite Moving Corpse

    02022HD

    The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists...

    Exquisite Moving Corpse
  • 2016
    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    7.62016HD

    Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.

    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
  • 2016
    Imponderable

    Imponderable

    Imponderable

    02016HD

    Presented in a “5-D” cinematic environment utilizing a contemporary form of Pepper’s ghost—a 19th-century phantasmagoric...

    Imponderable
  • 1985
    Making the Nature Scene

    Making the Nature Scene

    Making the Nature Scene

    01985HD

    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...

    Making the Nature Scene
  • 1987
    Sucker

    Sucker

    Sucker

    01987HD

    Blood and transcendence are themes that permeate Sucker, with its incarnations of religious iconography and sexuality. Life and death, good and evil...

    Sucker
  • 2011
    New York Influence City

    New York Influence City

    New York Influence City

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    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...

    New York Influence City
  • 1980
    Garage Sale II

    Garage Sale II

    Garage Sale II

    01980HD

    Featuring performances by artists Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley, Garage Sale II moves between a couple’s sexually dysfunctional relationship and...

    Garage Sale II
  • 1981
    Grand Mal

    Grand Mal

    Grand Mal

    01981HD

    "Oursler’s thematic concerns betray classic Freudian anxieties about sex and death. In Grand Mal, the hero takes a convoluted odyssey through a...

    Grand Mal
  • 1990
    On Our Own

    On Our Own

    On Our Own

    01990HD

    As recent state cut-backs force many mental patients out into the real world, Tony Oursler and Joe Gibbons team up to address psychiatric...

    On Our Own
  • 1985
    EVOL

    EVOL

    EVOL

    01985HD

    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...

    EVOL
  • 1983
    Spinout

    Spinout

    Spinout

    01983HD

    Spinout is an apocalyptic tale of a world spinning out of control to nowhere. Space travel, astrology, spirals, the universe, catastrophe and madness...

    Spinout
  • 2008
    Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?

    Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?

    Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?

    02008HD

    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...

    Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?
  • 1980
    The Loner

    The Loner

    The Loner

    01980HD

    The Loner is a psychosexual journey through the dark landscapes of Oursler's insular narrative universe. The tape's paranoid, tormented protagonist...

    The Loner
  • 1988
    Joyride (TM)

    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...

    Joyride (TM)
  • 1982
    Son of Oil

    Son of Oil

    Son of Oil

    01982HD

    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...

    Son of Oil
  • 1979
    Life of Phillis

    Life of Phillis

    Life of Phillis

    01979HD

    Life of Phillis is one of Oursler's earliest video narratives. In this psychosexual, low-tech epic, Oursler creates an outrageous theatrical world,...

    Life of Phillis
  • 2001
    9/11

    9/11

    9/11

    02001HD

    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...

    9/11
  • 1980
    The Weak Bullet

    The Weak Bullet

    The Weak Bullet

    01980HD

    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...

    The Weak Bullet