Mojave Mirage

2003
36m

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This is a short documentary about a strange phenomenon that occurred not long ago where a phone booth that was in the middle of the Mojave Desert began to attract folks around the world to c... Read allThis is a short documentary about a strange phenomenon that occurred not long ago where a phone booth that was in the middle of the Mojave Desert began to attract folks around the world to call the number and also to travel to the desert to answer the phone.This is a short documentary about a strange phenomenon that occurred not long ago where a phone booth that was in the middle of the Mojave Desert began to attract folks around the world to call the number and also to travel to the desert to answer the phone.

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- Derek Roberto
- Kaarina Cleverley Roberto

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6.7/10

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- Derek Roberto
- Kaarina Cleverley Roberto

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Visual Anthropology

Kaarine Cleverly Roberto is a recent graduate of a program called Visual Anthropology. This film was part of her thesis project, which explored the Mojave Phone Booth Phenomenon as an anthropological metaphor of the Information Age.

The film centers around a phone booth, in fact, that was placed in the Mojave Desert some time ago for miners (in case they were stranded.) THe miners are gone, and intrepid tourists travel from all over the world to visit California's phone in the middle of nowhere. How does a phone ever become a huge tourist attraction? I looked up the phone number for the Mojave Phone Booth, but too bad it's no longer in service.