Peter Julian Tammer is an Australian film director, and a former lecturer on film at Swinburne Film and Television School and later at its successor at the Victorian College of the Arts.
12 Facts About Peter Tammer
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Peter Julian Tammer began working in the film industry when he was 19 years old, in 1962.
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Peter Tammer worked as a film editor for film companies such as Eltham Films, with Tim Burstall, and later for government organisations such as the Commonwealth Film Unit.
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Peter Tammer started creating his own independent short films in 1964, such as And Peter Tammer Shall Rise Again and Beethoven and all that Jazz.
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Together with his wife Monique, Tammer put together a very early programme of independent short films called "A Breath of Fresh Air".
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Peter Tammer was associated with other filmmakers such as Jim Wilson, Fred Harden, Bert Deling, James Clayden, many of whom were now showing films at the Piencotheca Gallery, a precursor to the Melbourne Film Co-op.
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Peter Tammer had a productive association with Garry Patterson in the mid 1970s, for the films Here's To You, Mr Robinson and How Willingly You Sing.
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Peter Tammer's teaching career began in 1973, when he was appointed a tutor in a film course at Melbourne State College in Carlton.
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In 1986, Peter Tammer was appointed senior lecturer in Film, and in 1992 the Film and Television School transferred to the Victorian College of the Arts.
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At the VCA Peter Tammer delivered the newly-created Graduate Diploma of Film and Television Documentary stream.
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Peter Tammer was an inspirational teacher for many of the students, and he retired from the VCA in 1998.
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Peter Tammer continued making his own independent films all through this time, producing a series of award-winning films in the 1980s, including Mallacoota Stampede, Journey to the End of Night, and Hey Marcel.