Sin City: Diaspora, Displacement and Matthew Victor Pastor's 'Melodrama / Random / Melbourne!'

Known among independent screen circles for his inventive filmmaking, Matthew Victor Pastor creates work that is challenging both audiovisually and in its politically charged interrogations of citizenship, the city and societal relations. Nicholas Godfrey examines the manifestations of this penchant for cinematic questioning in one of Pastor's most recent – and most outlandish – films.

Additional keywords:
diaspora, international student, migrant, Asian-Australian, pick-up artist, MRA, misogyny, gender, Filipino.