At the bottom of a long flight of stairs, a floor below Baxter Street on the edge of Manhattan’s Chinatown, Cristine Brache’s quietly elegiac presentation “Bermuda Triangle” bathed Anonymous Gallery’s space in an uncanny aquatic ambience.

Currently, two New York galleries, Anonymous Gallery and Microscope, are showing how film and video work can have a dynamic, physical presence.

Things aren’t always what they seem. This notion leads Cristine Brache’s practice and current exhibition, “Bermuda Triangle.”

The Toronto-based couple talks about communication, pet names and avoiding Seinfeld tropes.

“Bermuda Triangle” is an excavation of Brache’s crisis of faith...

Swimming pools conjure up all sorts of memories—romantic, nostalgic, and cinematic, or sometimes all of those sensations at once, as is the case with artist Cristine Brache’s exhibition “Bermuda Triangle” at Anonymous Gallery.