The Gas Station

Victoria Bugbee works in film & video, audience immersive performance, and the visual arts. In college she studied fine arts at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina and at Kutztown University near her hometown of Catasauqua, PA. While living in Atlanta she taught art & science to 5th graders at Paidea School. She also managed an old New Orleans style hotel. This informed her one woman show at The Java Gallery where she was exhibiting her drawings about Le Pavilion Hotel.

Thinking that people were missing Bugbee constructed a cross-section of the hotel in the gallery windows and based the performance on the short story "Murder" by David Lee. Action happened simultaneously - a love scene, a murder and the hotel office - while Bugbee's monologue was piped out onto the street where the audience stood. The performance was very surreal & filmic. Bugbee had an epiphany that this is the way she wanted to workand she never looked back. Other performances based on a series of drawings were staged in an urban parking lot, and an East Village furniture store.

"Boxer Shorts" was staged in a laundromat and the artist worked with a videographer to record the performance. This introduced the artist to the next phase of her career. Moving to New York City, Bugbee worked for various film & video companies. Digital Effects Inc. was one of the first computer generated imagery companies in the world (TRON). Bugbee co-designed the trailer for David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME. At Doros Animation the company combined cel animation with live action. B Productions specialized in fashion & beauty. There Bugbee was Special Projects Producer and produced videos for Mercedes Benz, Fashion Week, CBS & Vogue TV Special "Fashion's Night Out," STARZ "The 25th Anniversary of the Cast of 'Murphy Brown,"' designers Oscar de la Renta, Betsey Johnson and many more.

During this time she also wrote & directed "The Gas Station Project" and staged a reading at OverSeas Auto Body Shop. As part of a community outreach Bugbee and Producer Cherie Fortis worked with at risk teens at Clark Academy on another staged reading. This time the kids transformed their gym to a makeshift gas station.

In 2016 Bugbee directed and produced her debut feature "Out of State-A Gothic Romance." http://outofstate-thefilm.com Co-written with the late Charles Bugbee, Bugbee shot 100 scenes in 21 days in her Victorian house in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. The micro budget film was self-financed and fiends supported via Indiegogo. To date the music driven arthouse film has been circling the globe at 50+ indie festivals winning 25+ awards.

Her articles on film, video, computer graphics and special effects have appeared in American Cinematographer, Computer Pictures, Backstage, Millimeter, Art Papers, and the Paris based film publication Sequence.

Bugbee is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow for Playwriting, Recipient of three Artist Initiated Grants from The Bureau of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta, and a Commission from Creative Time and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. Bugbee film has won for Best Picture, Best Narrative Film, Best Screenplay, Best Romance, Best Dramatic Comedy and Best Director at international indie film festivals..