Oursler has emerged as one of the most innovative young artists working in the production of narrative video. His works often deal with emotionally loaded situations and themes with an approach that is, in many ways, quite similar to those of painters like David Salle and Francesco Clemente.

In Oursler's latest finished work, The Loner,
he has produced a melodrama focusing on the psycho-sexual problems of the “average man.” The work combines elements of new image painting (in the construction of complex painted sets) with the commentary of a narrator whose alienation seems unbounded.
• By Tony Oursler. (1980, 32 mins, color)

Life of Phyllis
is the story of the life of a child prostitute and her maturation into a hostile world.
• By Tony Oursler. (1977, 45 mins, b&w)

In The Weak Bullet,
Oursler traces the deadly flight of a bullet that never stops, and the situations that it effects in its travels.
• By Tony Oursler. (1978, 15 mins, color)

The Rosy Finger of Dawn
is the sad story of rape, murder, and aggression set against a study of the male-female relationship.
• By Tony Oursler. (1979, 10 mins, color)