As Plato may or may not have said: “Necessity is the mother of invention”. It’s a proverb familiar to all who work in the constantly shifting world of no-budget cinema, but few have embraced the ethos as thoroughly as director Aaron Mento; director of STANDARDS OF LIVING. A veteran of genre short films, Mento saw a health scare – that afflicted him with temporary blindness – as a sign that he needed to tackle a larger project. With only a few small locations and an iPad2, Aaron then crafted a unique, inventive and thoroughly fascinating science fiction/horror film that pus
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