| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1988 | | TITLE: | Marke Slipp fonds | | CREATOR: | Slipp, Marke | | DATE RANGE: | 1968-2003 | | EXTENT: | 39 videotapes and other material
Also includes 28 audio reels, 10 films, 4 audio cassettes and 0.36 m of textual records. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Marke Slipp was born in Sackville, New Brunswick in 1949. In 1952, the family moved to Toronto, Ontario. In 1956 his father, George Slipp, developed a product for General Foods Post cereal division called Alpha-bits. Marke got a role as an actor in a television commercial for Alpha-bits, and later in a Sugar Crisp commercial. Marke had an interest in photography through his teens. In 1968 he and a group of friends made an amateur super 8mm film, where Marke first developed his interest in film editing. In 1968, he worked as a copy clerk at CBC Toronto. In May of 1969, he worked as Junior Assistant Film Editor with filmmaker George Appleby. In 1972 Marke worked with Canawest Productions in Vancouver, B.C. for a half a year before going back to Nova Scotia. He moved to Alberta in 1975 to work in the local film industry. In 1978, Marke set up his Edmonton-based film company, Pegasus Productions Ltd., in a building on 102 Street, occupying a studio next to other local filmmakers and worked mainly as a film editor. In 1980 Marke moved his business to a converted house on 100th Avenue where other filmmakers of note had located their businesses. This house would become a hub for Alberta filmmaking over the next decade.
Marke’s work in Alberta spanned many genres: documentary, drama, educational, promotional, and television commercials. Marke Slipp is widely acknowledged across Canada for his work in the capacity of editor. He has also worked on a number of films as producer, director, and writer. Since 1969 he has worked on numerous national and international award-winning productions in a variety of genres which have received both class and craft awards for his contributions. Marke received two Gemini nominations for editing, and received three Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association (AMPIA) Awards for Best Editing.
Marke Slipp was involved in other capacities in the film business during his time in Alberta. He was the AMPIA Awards chairman in the early 1980s and also sat on the AMPIA board, the Input 90 board, and served as president on the board of Global Visions Film Festival in the early 2000s. He was Edmonton’s representative on the National Executive Board of the Directors Guild of Canada. He has also been a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, and of the Canadian Conference of the Arts.
Marke married in 1984 and they had a daughter in 1985. In 2003 Marke and his wife moved to Nova Scotia.
| | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of VHS and ¾” videotapes, 16mm and 35mm film release prints and film elements, ¼” reel to reel and cassette audiotapes and textual material regarding film productions that Marke Slipp worked on, mainly as film editor. Some of the productions include My Partners My People, Get Back the Night with Alberta singer/songwriter Connie Kaldor, Learning With Love about the Alex Taylor School in Edmonton, Sylvan Lake Summer, and Truckers: A Road Well Travelled. Also included are the film elements for the unfinished production, A Poet of Place, regarding architect Douglas Cardinal. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Biographical information provided by the donor. |
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