Airport · Film
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Airport · Film
Where Los Angeles flies
Thirty-five years of international traffic at LAX, one month at a time. Two hundred and forty-four destinations compete; ten are on screen.
Videos
Six films, each one drawn straight out of a public dataset rather than shot: no narration, no stock footage, nothing on screen that is not in the record. They are silent, and they are meant to be watched rather than read.
All videos
Who flies Los Angeles abroad
The same thirty-five years, read the other way: the carriers on LAX’s international segments, re-ranked every month.
One week of LAPD helicopters
Every flight the department’s fleet made between 9 and 15 August 2026, one day every twenty-four seconds. There is no basemap: the city you can see is drawn entirely by the aircraft.
A day of parking tickets
Thursday 15 October 2020, twenty-four hours of parking enforcement in Los Angeles, every citation appearing where and when it was written. By midnight the tickets have drawn the city.
Los Angeles builds itself
Every parcel in the basin, drawn in the year the building standing on it today went up. 1900 to 2025, at two and a half years a second.
Four cities, one week
The same week of police helicopter flying over Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas and San Diego, at one scale, side by side.
GamesAsk what you actually know about the country you live in.InteractivesInstruments you can point at your own address.EverythingFilms, games and instruments on one page.
6 films, all built from public records. Every dataset behind them is in Basin Data.