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Bahram Bayzai’s cinema can be considered as a visual interpretation of the Persian myth. Bayzaihas tried to modernize the myths and present new versions of them by breaking the old versions and making new ones. In this way, he makes the narrative structure of his works closer to the myth. Discovering and elaborating different aspects of form and structure of Bayzai’s works will not be possible without considering the theories of structuralists such as Claude Lévi-Strauss.  In this article, drawing on structuralism and narratology in the works of theorists such as Prop, Barthes, and Strauss, the form and structure of the time in four of Bayzai’s works have been compared to their counterpart,mythical narratives. I have concluded that in his cinematic narration time becomes closer to its mythical structure; in other words, time becomes endless, fixed, and sacred.

Keywords: Bahram Bayzai, visual interpretation of myth, mythical time, Dramatic literature, Cinema

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