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Michelle Ermens wins audience award at TENT Academy Awards 2018

  • Fine Art
  • Design
De winners of TENT Academy Awards 2018 (left to right Praewe, Michelle en Natalia)
De winners of TENT Academy Awards 2018 (left to right Praewe, Michelle en Natalia)

 

Michelle Ermens, who graduated from Art & Design Zwolle this summer, has won the audience award at the TENT Academy Awards 2018 with her animated film 'Drained'. Drained immerses the viewer into the psyche of a girl who struggles with mental illness. The film alternates between desperation and the search for a resolution. The other Academy Award winners are Praewa Brink Bulthaweenan and Natalia Papeava. Natalia Papaeva won the award for the best video art graduation project at a Dutch Art academy. Praewa Brink won the Best Foreign Film Award: the prize for the best video graduation project by a young artist from the guest country Great Britain.

TENT Academy Awards
The TENT Academy Awards, annually organised by TENT, the platform for contemporary art in Rotterdam, are a competition for graduation projects (videos, films, shorts and animations) by Dutch Art Institute students. The aim of the TENT Academy Awards is to provide talented young audiovisual artists with a platform and to help boost their profile.