This paper explores the five most established academic projects which incorporate audiovisual means in Mexico City: the Department of Audiovisual Means at ENAH; the Audiovisual Laboratory for Social Research at Instituto Mora; the Visual Anthropology Laboratory at UAM- Iztapalapa and the Permanent Seminar on Visual Anthropology at IIA-UNAM. The article draws a panoramic view of the different trajectories and perspectives each one has. It generates a space to ponder on the advance in the incorporation of audiovisual language into the process of knowledge construction on social sciences and actualizes information on the status of visual anthropology in the context of the city. Its concluding remarks seek to be the basis for actions that promote the appropriation of said means in research, which help to consolidate an avant- garde visual anthropology in response to current needs of Mexican anthropology.