Sentences with phrase «cloistered narrative fictions»

Zeroing in on two islands in the East River — the quietly residential Roosevelt Island squeezed between Queens and Manhattan and the unpopulated North Brother Island, former home to Riverside Hospital and the infamous Typhoid Mary — the two videos in this program hover between historical biographies of places enmeshed within the fabric of a vast megalopolis and cloistered narrative fictions woven as islands of their own.