Without resorting to words, this work offers a reflection on the cinema screen as a threshold and on the experience of cinema as a journey: one of the ways in which cinema has conceived and represented itself, both in its spectatorial dimension and as an environmental medium, as well as a filmic text, giving rise to a truly meta-reflective and meta-cinematic topos that runs through its entire history. In a manner that is more poetic than explanatory, the video essay, through a supercut, juxtaposes heterogeneous materials – from the origins to the contemporary, from arthouse cinema to mainstream productions – organising them by micro-themes and visual analogies, bringing to light recurring motifs linked to entering and exiting the cinematic image. Seamlessly, a shared journey takes shape from the fragments, in which the screen is torn, violated, blown apart, sought out, touched, loved and, above all, traversed: an open form that entrusts the construction of meaning to the viewer, inviting them, precisely, to ‘traverse’.