Oursler's early video works are bizarre tales of good and evil that are crudely but ingeniously rendered. Life is a series of spontaneous, dryly humorous episodes about the absurdity and grotesqueness of everyday life. Oursler writes: "When I look around I see that life is pregnant with pleasures and dangers. I get confused. We come down the chute and start out O.K. Then everything is go go go until you... you know what happens."