Ted and Elizabeth have created video/film installations that have shown in galleries and museums: Long Distance (2003) and Renovation (2005). Currently, Elizabeth and Ted are co-producing Veins in the Gulf, a documentary based in southern Louisiana on the disappearance of Cajun culture, poetry, and the wetlands, and Our Digital Africa Trip, a reflective video essay about traveling through Kenya.
A documentary filmmaker and professor, Elizabeth Coffman, co-founded the Center for Global Media and Documentary Studies at Loyola University Chicago in 2004. In the field of cinema studies, she has published on early avant-garde cinema and body movement, as well as contemporary video practices surrounding violence, new media and documentary collaboration. Elizabeth co-produced short films with the Gainesville women's collective, FemTV, and was the Producer/Writer for a Power to the People Rally, featuring Michael Moore and Ralph Nader (2003).
After receiving his M.A. from Florida State University in German Film Studies and an M.F.A. from the Ohio State University in Film and Video, Ted Hardin worked with a variety of artists at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada as director of photography, director, editor, lighting director, and assistant director.
Ted has collaborated with the alternative media collective Paper Tiger Television in New York, and researched and shot the documentary, Dark Near-Death Experiences for German Television. His own experimental narratives and movement-based films have shown at festivals and galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe. Ted is a Film and Video Professor at Columbia College Chicago.