A phone booth in nowhere became everyone's somewhere — and nobody knew why.
Documentary short about a strange phenomenon where a phone booth that was in the middle of the Mojave Desert began to attract people around the world to call the number and also to travel to the desert to answer the phone.
Direction
Captures haunting beauty of pointless devotion.
Production
Turns a phone booth into sacred ground.
Director
Derek Roberto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The actual Mojave phone number (760-733-9969) became so famous that fans still try calling it decades later.
This 2003 doc predates Twitter by three years — it's essentially about the last time strangers connected without algorithms.
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