The uncut Drawers is 11 minutes long. There are additional versions that are seven and four minute in duration. Andrea Callard and Cara Perlman made Drawers in Callard's studio on Chambers Street in NYC in 1974 using a Sony portapak. A medium shot frames a set of white drawers. Callard pulls strings to repeatedly open the drawers in a sequence while Perlman pulls out many lines of clothing tied together. These lines recall outdoor clotheslines of laundry, work for girls. Wearing white shirts like men in offices, they keep trying to get it "right," persisting for a long time. Light bulbs throw shadows on the wall behind, another reference to puppetry.