The Phantom of the Operator

Name: The Phantom of the Operator
Director: Caroline Martel
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2004-09-12
Duration: 66 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Pascale Montpetit

200466m

★ 6.5

Documentary

The Phantom of the Operator is a poetic film collage that documents the construction and rise of female telephone operators and their eventual replacement with computerized communications systems.

Where to Watch The Phantom of the Operator Free Online

Watch The Phantom of the Operator full movie online for free in HD quality on Watch Online Stream. Stream from Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Prime Video, and more without any subscription or sign up. The Phantom of the Operator is a poetic film collage that documents the construction and rise of female telephone operators and their eventual replacement with computerized communications systems.

Cast

Pascale Montpetit

Self - Narrator (voice)

Similar Titles

One Thousand Days in Saigon

0.02012MOVIE

Documentary short following French-Vietnamese artist Marcelino Truong on his journey back to Vietnam for the research on his 'roman graphique' 'Une si jolie petite guerre' (A Lovely Little War). Truong looks back to when his family lived in Saigon from 1961 to 1963 when his father served as a translator to then president of the Republic of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem. The film follows Truong as he ruminates over memories, photos and films, and also conducts a host of interviews with Vietnamese relatives and officials to present a personal and long awaited Vietnamese perspective to the war.

Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess

8.02011MOVIE

Henry Rollins narrates Lilly Scourtis Ayers' no-holds-barred profile of volatile Bay Area punk legend Marian Anderson, whose hypnotic beauty, devil-may-care rebellion and shocking sexual exploits onstage launched her to infamy before tragically dying of a heroin overdose at the tender age of 33.

Patron

0.02013MOVIE

Sara Hildén was maybe an artist, from Tampere, or maybe a patron? A business woman? Most of the Finnish people add her name into Sara Hildén art gallery, but her story included much more.

On Coal RiverNo Poster

On Coal River

5.52010MOVIE

On Coal River takes viewers on a gripping emotional journey into the Coal River Valley of West Virginia — a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. The film follows a former coal miner and his neighbors in a David-and-Goliath struggle for the future of their valley, their children, and life as they know it.

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

6.71979MOVIE

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contemporary France.

Der dritte Bruder

0.02025MOVIE

While searching for her grandmother, the director comes across the story of three brothers who are torn between the fronts of political ideologies in the Third Reich and divided Germany: "the third brother" is the filmmaker's grandfather, who, in confronting her father, tries to overcome decades of speechlessness and, in the process, to understand where in the past her father's sense of family fell by the wayside.

Profilers: Gaze Into the Abyss

6.52014MOVIE

Documentary about the work of 6 criminal profilers around the world.

School of Babel

6.62014MOVIE

They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks, conflicts and joys of this group of students aged 11 to 15 years, together in the same class to learn French.

Good Game

7.02014MOVIE

Creative and competitive, members of the Evil Geniuses Starcraft 2 team must prove themselves to make the cut in professional video gaming. Good Game follows the team as they discover that one wrong move could end their dreams.

Linar

4.82013MOVIE

A Russian boy gets a heart transplant in Italy. A lot of people were by his side on his long journey full of hardships, except for his mother.

Farewell to HollywoodNo Poster

Farewell to Hollywood

0.02013MOVIE

A nonfiction fairytale about love, death, art and the letting go.

Bastards: Outcast in Morocco

6.02014MOVIE

At 14 Rabha El Haimer was an illiterate child bride, beaten, raped and then rejected. Ten years later, she is a single mother, fighting to legalise her sham marriage and secure a future for her illegitimate daughter. With unprecedented access to the Moroccan justice system, “Bastards” follows Rabha’s fight from the Casablanca slums to the high courts.

You Can't Do Everything at Once, But You Can Leave Everything at Once

5.82013MOVIE

It all began on a couch. He watched her undress and they made love for the first time.

The Cloud Forest

5.22017MOVIE

A small community in Veracruz is the guardian of one of the ecosystems facing the most risk: the cloud forest. By redesigning their needs, education and relationship with other people and with nature, they search for a simpler and sustainable life.

Win By Fall

0.02017MOVIE

At the age of 12, Janny, Lisa, Debby and Michelle leave their home for a sports school in the East German province to become wrestlers. A documentary about coming-of-age between boarding school corridors, wrestling gyms and boy band posters.

Last Days of Life

0.02013MOVIE

An end-of-life hospice opens its doors in this intimate documentary, revealing moments of joy and tenderness between staff, residents and loved ones.

The Cult Next DoorNo Poster

The Cult Next Door

6.02017MOVIE

In 2013, three women emerged from a flat in Brixton. They had been held there for decades by Aravindan Balakrishnan, a revolutionary Maoist who controlled the women with brainwashing techniques and tales of a sinister, world-controlling machine he called 'Jackie'.

Melting Snow

0.02021MOVIE

Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white Christmas”—become a metaphor for the colonialist paternalism of America’s relationship to Puerto Rico.

Filmstudenten - in die Praxis entlassenNo Poster

Filmstudenten - in die Praxis entlassen

0.01971MOVIE

Documentary about the situation of film students after graduation.

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

7.91991MOVIE

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.