REVIEWS & PRESS
Review: Tether is a quiet drama that speaks to the grim reality of mass shooting aftermath
Peter Gray, AU Review
Director Hariharasudhen Nagarajan and writer Anghus Houvouras couldn’t accept “the new normal” of shootings in the United States. Such mass attacks as the Parkland High School shooting and the Pulse Nightclub incident were part of a grim reality that the two weren’t willing to become accustomed to.
Review: Tether is tense and filled with superb emotional weight
Rebecca, Film Carnage
Unquestionably, school shootings are an extremely sensitive topic but there are a handful of great films like Fran Kranz’s Mass which have chosen to approach the subject through the perspective of those left behind, and Tether follows in their wake.
Review: Tether offers a rare cinematic glimpse into a kind of moral injury
Herbert Paine, Broadway World
Grief doesn’t always cry out. Sometimes, it implodes. In Hariharasudhen Nagarajan’s TETHER, silence becomes its own form of testimony. What he and writer Anghus Houvouras achieve is a cinematic meditation on what remains unspoken – on the quiet wreckage left not only by bullets, but by absence.
Sankeerthna Vedamtam, Movie Jawn
Over the past five years, Hariharasudhen Nagarajan has built up a steady portfolio of work as a critic and filmmaker. His multimedia essays on Tamil film have appeared in the prestigious online magazine Film Companion, and he has directed six short films that have focused on the importance of ground-level human relationships and interpersonal psychology.