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Peter Tammer | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1964–present |
Peter Julian Tammer is an Australianfilm director, and a former lecturer on film atSwinburne Film and Television School and later at its successor at theVictorian College of the Arts.
Peter Julian Tammer[citation needed] began working in the film industry when he was 19 years old, in 1962. He worked as afilm editor for film companies such as Eltham Films, with Tim Burstall, and later for government organisations such as theCommonwealth Film Unit. He started creating his own independent short films in 1964, such asAnd He Shall Rise Again (1964, 15 mins) andBeethoven and all that Jazz (1964, 2 mins).[citation needed] Through the 1960s, he connected with other Melbourne independent filmmakers such asNigel Buesst, Tom Cowan,[citation needed] andPaul Cox.[1]
Together with his wife Monique, Tammer put together a very early programme of independent short films called "A Breath of Fresh Air".[citation needed] In the early 1970s, Tammer was a founding member of the Melbourne Film-maker's Co-op, an important group for independent filmmakers in Melbourne at the time.[2] He 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. He also had a productive association with Garry Patterson in the mid 1970s, for the filmsHere's To You, Mr. Robinson (1976, 52 mins) andHow Willingly You Sing (1977, 90 mins, directed by Patterson, with cinematography by Tammer).[citation needed]
Tammer's teaching career began in 1973, when he was appointed a tutor in a film course at Melbourne State College in Carlton. In 1979,[citation needed] he was appointed lecturer in film at theSwinburne Film and Television School. Among his students werePaul Goldman,Chris KennedyJohn Hillcoat, andEvan English, dubbed the "Gang of Four" byNigel Buesst owing to their pranks, one of which involved "kidnapping a frozen chicken" from Tammer's fridge.[3]
In 1986, Tammer was appointed senior lecturer in Film, and in 1992 the Film and Television School transferred to theVictorian College of the Arts (VCA). At the VCA Tammer delivered the newly-created Graduate Diploma of Film and Television Documentary stream.[citation needed] Tammer was an inspirational teacher for many of the students,[4] and he retired from the VCA in 1998.[5]
Tammer continued making his own independent films all through this time, producing a series of award-winning films in the 1980s, includingMallacoota Stampede (1981, 60 mins),Journey to the End of Night (1982, 70 mins), andHey Marcel ... (1984, 17 mins).[citation needed] A cherished project on the film scholar and actorJohn Flaus, entitledFlausfilm, was begun in 1988 and finally completed in 2009.[citation needed]
Titles directed by Peter Tammer:
(note: these three above films are gathered as "Triptych")
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