Rolando Briseño is a San Antonio-based public artist. He proudly embraces the designation of Cultural Adjustor (I believe it’s printed on his business cards). There have been several events over the years (sometimes at the Alamo, sometimes in a gallery space) where Rolando has curated similar happenings to prompt people to reconsider the prevailing mythos surrounding the Alamo. This video was taken during the 2011 event, which, I believe, was staged on the feast day of Saint Anthony de Padua, June 13. There are way too many luminaries from the local arts and cultural scene to type out here, but we do have a who’s-who of San Antonio, whether part of the inter-connected ceremonies, or in the audience, bearing witness to this moment of cultural adjustment. The band playing is Los Nahuatlatos, and I poached some of their live performance to be the music bed. I shot this all so loosely, with no intention of editing it into anything, really. Basically I was lugging my camera around to hide behind (the camera has been for so many years one of the greatest friends to the socially awkward introvert), but when I got home later that day and made a really short montage of an edit, I loved how the emotions (joyful and tragic, at the same time) were so fortuitously captured.