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name: "Matthew Pusti"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matthew-pusti"
fi1m_id: "matthew-pusti"
imdb_id: "nm4966870"
tmdb_id: 2535160
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T20:29:12.095868+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Matthew Pusti

## Identity

Matthew Pusti

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/matthew-pusti
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** matthew-pusti
- **IMDb ID:** nm4966870
- **TMDB ID:** 2535160
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4966870/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2535160

Composer. Born in Cleveland, Ohio area.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Also known as:** Matthew Steven Pusti, Makeup and Vanity Set
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4966870/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2535160

## Biography

Matthew Pusti, also credited as Matthew Steven Pusti and Makeup and Vanity Set, is a composer based in Nashville, Tennessee. His undergraduate studies focused on production and composition with an emphasis in electronic music. He began releasing electronic music under the name Makeup and Vanity Set in the mid-1990s.

Pusti has composed original scores for the television series *The Girlfriend Experience* (2016) and the film *A Good Woman Is Hard to Find* (2019). He scored the 2026 film *Onslaught* and contributed additional music to *Godzilla vs. Kong* (2021), both directed by Adam Wingard. He has also composed for video games, podcasts and advertising, and serves as in-house composer for Tenderfoot TV.

*Sources: imdb.com, filmmusicreporter.com, matthewstevenpusti.com, synthwave.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Onslaught* (2026), Fi1m 58, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/onslaught.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Onslaught* (2026), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/onslaught.md)
- *Rotation* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *A Strange Calm* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *A Good Woman Is Hard to Find* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Heart of Batman* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *The Girlfriend Experience* (2016), series, Original Music Composer
- *What I Was Trying to Say*, Original Music Composer

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