Intimate Filter

Seeing the intimate projection of the super 8 flicker out "The Lace of Summer" by Storm De Hirsch, I couldn't help but think of home movies. There's something about the sound of the projector mixed with the creamy tones of the images that makes this kind of film/projection style transport the mind to memory. Why did De Hirsch choose to have this type of projection? The film was mostly comprised of shots from a balcony out over a low contrast overcast day at the beach (?). Repetitious pans back and forth, some shots seemed to rest on a zoomed in shot, and then zoomed back to include the foreground. The style of shot kind of reminded me of Akerman's shots where she let the camera sit as the world came into the frame and then back out. It's an interesting look at the idea of "home movie." When the camera would zoom back in to include shots from the foreground, De Hirsch captured a woman standing on the balcony. The woman was sometimes shot through the lace, and sometimes spared its fog. These techniques made me think of why the woman was shot like this, in relation to these "waves" of beach tents and low lighting. Was this representative, these shots through the lace, of the sometimes foggy image we think of when we see relatives on film? How does an image change with filter? Maybe De Hirsch was trying to capture the feeling of her memory of this woman, of anyone...and what better way to do that than through the filter of fabric.
I wonder what techniques I might choose if I were to represent my relation to my family through memory. Through urine? Through a dirty casserole dish? Ok, I'm getting weird, but really, it's interesting to think of representative filters through which we might capture our world.