Northwest Film Forum

Part of the 2008 Local Sightings Film Festival

In Partnership with Time and The Tribe and the Professor are two gems from the Ruth and Louis Kirk Moving Image Collection housed at the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. Ruth Kirk, a writer and photographer, along with husband Louis Kirk, a national park ranger and naturalist, produced numerous curriculum audio-visual materials and prime-time broadcast programs. Their film work, created primarily in the 1970s, included subjects such as Northwest Coast Native American fishing rights as guaranteed by treaty; the dilemma of whether totem poles still standing at abandoned villages should be preserved or left to rot; archaeology in Washington and British Columbia; and desert ecology and alpine meadow life.

In Partnership with Time: Historic Preservation in Washington (1981) is an exploration of historic preservation efforts in the state of Washington, including pop architecture like the Hat and Boots, local institutions like Pioneer Square and the Pike Place Market, and many other preservation projects.

The Tribe and the Professor, Ozette Archaeology (1978) is an award winning documentary following the work of Professor Richard Daughtery, his students from Washington State University, and their collaboration with the Makah tribe as they uncover and catalogue a longhouse buried in a 300-year-old mudslide at Cape Alava, Washington.