This dissertation looked to investigate how the indigenous people are utilizing audiovisual resources, particularly video, to present themselves to other peoples both indigenous and non-indigenous. This being based on the analysis of three videos. The topic seems relevant in that anthropology must attend to the ways that our interlocutors are selecting to relate/communicate. In the first chapter, I sought to show that anthropology and cinema both surfaced at approximately the same period in the end of the 19th century and that the first crews to work in the field used cameras as a way to record the native populations. I approach the first references of etnographic films until I arrive at the shared perspective of Jean Rouch's cinematic work, which, to some extent, anticipated the epistemological upheaval undergone by anthropology, especially from the 1980's onward, in which the representations and reflections of the until-then natives acquired a new place. From this point I worked on the question of why auto-representation can be a means through which one could approach the indigenous videos and resume with some theoretical contributions on the topic. In the next chapter, I approached the beginning of indigenous audiovisual productions in Brazil from the bibliographical sources that inform us about two experiences: the Kayapó and the Waiãpi. These are emblematic cases due to the pioneering of these peoples in the use of cameras and video, but also due to these being experiences that have had considerable divulgation and reflection. In the third and final chapter, I analyzed the three videos searching to confront representations, which are: what the indigenous peoples are making of themselves and others and my representations which were drawn after reading these representations, seeking to raise the themes and pointing out the discursive strategies mobilized in the auto-representations proportioned by the videos.