Photography Magnus Jønk
Editor MaAhew Newman
Music Julian Winding
Production Design Marcella Galeone
Stylist Amelianna Loiacono
Make-Up Tanja Frisic
Hair Stylist Alessandro Rebecchi
Sound Design Kris’an Eidnes
Colorist Mariam La’f
VXF and Postproduction Welcome Post CPH
Produced by Art + Vibes for MV Agusta
Execu7ve Producers
Max Brun
Chris’na Erritzoe @byNWR
Kimberly Willming @byNWR
Producer Mar’na Vilardo
An interview with Nicolas Winding Refn
Can you tell us more about how BEAUTY IS NOT A SIN came about? Who approached you for the commission, and how did you approach a commissioned work?
I was approached by my good friend Massimiliano Brun (“Max”) who was working together with Agusta to make a “commercial”. They had a conceptual approach that I found very interesting and I did what I always do – gave it the pure by NWR treatment.
What interested you in the short film format? Did you consciously think of it as a genre different from feature-length films, and if so, what – apart from duration – would you see as the biggest differences?
For me, the length of anything I create doesn’t matter nor has it ever mattered. In the age of digitalization, length is only a state of mind. Why can’t an 8-minute short be a feature film experience? I don’t look at narrative in that way. To me, the length of the film has no purpose. It guides itself, it’s how it wants to be created…
