In this article, I analyze the film “Arroz con leche” (2009), an experimental audiovisual ethnography collectively created by five women from Mayan milpa families, our extended families, and other collaborators. The process highlights the historical construction of our otherness as Mayan people and as foreigners in our own territory. My desire to share my experience of anthropological research with the women and their families—who had collaborated in my research project—led me to visual anthropology. Today, the film serves as a pedagogical tool for research and co-creation that underscores the continuity of the Mayan people’s inhabitation of their territory. Through a procedural ethnographic practice, an experimental audiovisual language, and an autoethnographic and self-reflective process, I develop an analysis in which the autonomous life of the Mayan people emerges in their daily activities, where they embroider their dreams, practices, and ancestral knowledge with the threads of modern life.