A film about a seriously disturbed loner who imagines that his only friend is his talking bowl of oatmeal. When the guy begins to unhealthily obsess over what he can do with meat, a rift is driven between them. In tone and thematics, the absurd, pathetic alienation and insanity of this story brings "Eraserhead" to mind, but it's definitely it's own beast.
(Cinematery)

PRESS QUOTATIONS
“A man fed up with his solitary existence decides, on the advice of his breakfast cereal, to take up a hobby. Made not at the famous TISCH School but at the School of Continuing Education, this film was a group collaboration which took, from conception through postproduction,less than a month to complete.”
UFVA Student Film & Video Festival Philadelphia, September 1996

“A Bowl of Oatmeal, a rare group effort led by Dietmar Post, is the tale of a hermit in the throes of a nervous breakdown who receives advice from a sly, articulate bowl of oatmeal with a Bostonian accent.”
Michael Simmons, L.A. Weekly, April 1997

“Desperate people who hate making decisions will take advice from just about anywhere…mail-order evangelists, psychics, politicians, breakfast food. A morbidly fascinating look at the effect two of the major food groups have on a lonely man’s life."
Chicago Underground FF, August 1997

“A lonely man of the brink of emotional desolation begins to hear voices emanating from his breakfast cereal, guiding him to get a hobby. Against his oatmeal’s better judgment, he takes on a new pastime involving stolen meat.”
New York Underground FF, March 1997

“Who ever thought a conversation with a bowl of oatmeal would make for intriguing cinema? Bowl of Oatmeal is the story of a paranoid shut-in who tries to take advice from his kvetching breakfast. The camerawork is basic, but the dry humor of the script keeps things moving. (…)”
Neil Gladstone, Philadelphia City Paper, March 1997

“You need money to eat, to have a good glass of wine. But you can do life with oatmeal and water, too, believe me.”
Jean-Claude Van Damme, US Magazine, October 1998

“An eloquent and controlling bowl of oatmeal attempts to dominate the solitary life of a grimy glutton in this smartly shot descent into the meat of loneliness.”
Eric Brummer, Hollywood Underground Forum, April 1997

“Atmospheric and strangely compelling.”
Fangoria, # 176, 1998

“Bowl of Oatmeal serves as a dress rehearsal for the final film, but in its own right stands as unsettling cinema. An agoraphobic loner inexorably loses his mind within the confines of a bed-sit. Not even the revelation that a bowl of unappetizing oatmeal is taunting him alleviates the gloom. As the high fiber breakfast continues its needling, the man develops a keen interest in dead meat, but the film takes this into an area unexpected and haunting.”
Rob Daniel, England, 1998

PIETRO GONZÁLEZ
Pietro González, a well known American-Chilean actor from New York with a long trajectory in theater, has recently appeared in Sydney Pollack's "The Interpreter", with Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman.
Pietro could also recently be seen in the play "Severity of a Tyrant's Tale" from Vargas Llosa, at the Spanish Repertory Theater in New York. The New York Times wrote:
"Pietro González (an actor who looks disconcertingly like a diminutive Mikhail Gorbachev) plays Joaquín Balaguer, Trujillo's longtime second-in-command and powerful successor with the craft of a master plotter awaiting his chance."
(New York Times, Bruce Weber, March 11, 2003).

FILM FESTIVALS
UFVA Student Film and Video Festival in Philadelphia (USA), 1996; 10th Stuttgart Filmwinter (Germany), 1997; 4th New York Underground Film Festival (USA), 1997; Philadelphia Underground Film Festival (USA), 1997; 4th Hollywood Underground Forum (USA), 1997 ; 4th Chicago Underground Film Festival (USA), 1997; 2nd 1 Reel Film Festival-The Seattle Arts Festival (USA), 1997; 15th Central Florida Film and Video Festival (USA), 1997; Festival Internacional Valdivia Cine & Video (Chile), 1997; Cultureel centrum't Paard in The Hague (Netherlands), 1997; Taboo Film Festival Amsterdam (Netherlands), 1997; Circles of Confusion-3rd World Wide Film&Video Festival Berlin (Germany), 1997; 5th Chicago Underground Film Festival (USA), 1998 (together with CLOVEN HOOFED); Ohio Independent Film Festival (Cleveland, USA), 1998 (together with CLOVEN HOOFED); Interfilm - 14. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Berlin (Germany), 1998; 12th Espoo Cine International Film Festival (Espoo/Helsinki, Finland), 2001; 2. Pornfilmfestival Berlin (Germany), 2007; hofHaus Short Film Festival (Germany), 2007

AWARDS
Winner of the Director's Choice Award at the UFVA Student F&V Festival in Philadelphia, 1996; 3rd Winner of the Audience Award "eject" at 14.International Kurzfilmfestival Berlin (Germany), 1998.

Movie theatres and film festivals can book the original 16mm print at [email protected]

Official Movie Page: https://www.playloud.org/bowloatmeal.html
IMdB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806031/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_of_Oatmeal