About me

Hi there.

My name is Nina Kemp and I am a family videographer and photographer. I have been helping my dad film weddings in Niagara ever since I was in high school. I was 13 when I owned my first real video camera with the little dv tapes and everything. I have been obsessed with videos ever since.

Watching my brothers grow up, I have filmed countless hours of home video. The last few years I’ve slowly learned how to edit home videos that tell an emotional story.

I am lucky enough to have filmed numerous birthday parties for my nieces & nephews, holidays, special announcements, and have learned how to create a timeless home video.

I’ve learned how to get simple, clean shots, how to make adults look flattering and how to make their kids shine.

I like to film as if its a fly on the documentary, just a day in the life, of you.

I am drawn to the idea of starting a business because I am noticing the passage of time more clearly.

I am watching my nieces and nephew grow, my young brothers become little adults, and all I want is for time to slow down.

Time is so continuous.

It keeps pushing forward even when we will it to stop.

Little kids get big, young people get old, and so it goes.

I believe videos can help time slow down.

A home movie captures a brief moment of your family history.

They capture a moment of time that cannot be recreated.

This is why I want to make family films/home movies for a living.

I film my life, my family, my friends so I can transport back someday.

I hope I can create beautiful family films for you to add to your time capsule.

The name Time Machine Films comes from the original sci-fi writer H.G. Wells. In his famous story “The Time Machine” there’s one quote that sums up how we can time travel, even for just, a moment.

In the story, a skeptic of the Time Traveller says “You can move about in all directions of Space, but you cannot move about in Time.” to which the Time Traveller replies “But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence…I jump back for a moment.”.

That one moment of remembering is important. Our memories are powerful and the older I become, I grow more aware, that we can lose our memories. It becomes harder to jump back to a certain moment. When H.G. Wells wrote this story, in 1895, the moving camera had recently been invented. He likely imagined a future where the moving camera could become the next Time Machine.

I genuinely believe that video and film are literal Time Machines that allow you to remember. They allow you to jump back to a moment, and relive it so vividly, it feels like you’ve traveled back in Time.