“Making some arrows overnight,” tells the story about the collapse of a tribe in the pre-historical period. The sound of making the arrows in the video and the monologue suggest a series of urgent circumstances. The narrator, or a witness of this calamity receded to the caves of their ancestors from the river, as their weapons were exhausted, the narrator and his tribal members, trapped in the caves, were hesitant, apprehensive and felt an imminent doom. At the same time, they had to make more weapons and store them. They were left with no choice but to urgently practice the methods of weaponry and prepare for the moment of destruction.

“連夜,打制一些箭鏃出來”，講述了發生在史前的一場部落災難。影像中打制箭鏃的聲音與獨白指向了一連串緊張的局面。自述的人或是這場滅頂之殤親歷者，他們從河岸退返到祖先的洞穴，在武器耗盡的戰爭間隙，困在洞穴里的獨白者和族人遲疑、惶惑，深感時日將盡。與此同時，他們又不得不制作和儲備武器，緊張的溫習著打制方法，準備那一摧崩時刻的來臨。

B. 1986 in Xi’an. Currently works and lives in Beijing. Yan Zhou has held his personal projects Where to Begin? : Yan Zhou in OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, 2017. Other recent exhibitions include Mocube Yan Zhou: Coping mechanism, Beijing, 2019; Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum The Lonely Spirit, Beijing, 2018； OCAT Xi’an Mapping the City: A Vision of History and Xi’an, Xi’an, 2018; OCAT Anren New Video in China: New Attitude Since 2010, Anren, 2018.