Enigmatic, minimal, and sweeping in scale, “OXO” is the latest music video by Estonian studio Tolm for musician/composer Janek Murd and shares a certain austere playfulness with their previous collaboration ‘AVA’ from late 2021.

Joosep Volk: “‘OXO’ looks for a beacon in the desert, a beam of energy drilling a hole into the canvas, and a dot entering this realm from nothing. All dancing to the same beat. What fits between these two points? Do our memories matter once the beat stops luring? Nothingness multiplied by non-existence is…

“The story is based on a short text written back in 2020 to get started on the film. The storyboard was left to wait until better times as work kept piling up. But one meeting with Janek gave it a new life.”
 

 
Artist: Janek Murd

Production: Tolm
Director/animator: Joosep Volk