Peter Julian Tammer[citation needed] began working in the film industry when he was 19 years old, in 1962.
[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] Tammer's teaching career began in 1973, when he was appointed a tutor in a film course at Melbourne State College in Carlton.
Among his students were Paul Goldman, Chris Kennedy John Hillcoat, and Evan English, dubbed the "Gang of Four" by Nigel Buesst owing to their pranks, one of which involved "kidnapping a frozen chicken" from Tammer's fridge.
[citation needed] A cherished project on the film scholar and actor John Flaus, entitled Flausfilm, was begun in 1988 and finally completed in 2009.