The new Short Film ‘Snooze Time‘ by English and Media Studies Tutor Matt Harris is ‘going off’ and causing a bit of a stir. The short, which can be accessed via Vimeo,  has already been seen 140,000 times and received 1,920 ‘likes’.

The buzz seems to have been partly due to a short review of the the 7 minute film by Jeanette Bonds, a writer and independent animator living in Los Angeles and Co-Founder/CEO of GLAS Animation. Jeanett’s review was recently posted on the website ‘Short of the Week‘ which gave the short a 4.5/5 star rating. Snooze Time is written by Matthew (Matt) Harris and directed by Ivan Barge.

Dr. Matt Harris teaches and tutors in the School of English and Media Studies at the University’s Albany campus, where he was nominated for Lecturer of the Year in 2010. His writing has been published widely, from academic articles in Landfall to creative writing in Poetry New Zealand, Trout, Southern Ocean Review, Kokako, and many others.  His previous nine-minute film, entitled 43,000 Feet, premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York.