"One of the last messages I sent to the great Iranian stage and screen writer-director Bahram Beyzaie was a recent photograph, taken by a friend, of the interior ruins of Tehran's oldest cinema, Cinema Iran. There, on one of the walls, hung posters of Beyzaie's 1988 film Maybe Some Other Time, positioned above and below the torn portraits of the supreme leaders of the theocratic regime."
"The films of Beyzaie, who died on 26 December aged 87, are seamless blends of myth, symbolism, folklore, and classical Persian literature. Within their dizzying labyrinth of rituals, cinema becomes an act of dreaming. Outside the cinema, his profound devotion to Iran's performing arts and literary traditions both pre- and post-Islamic resulted in the publication of more than 70 books, including histories, plays and screenplays."
Bahram Beyzaie created films that fuse myth, symbolism, folklore and classical Persian literature into labyrinthine rituals where cinema acts as dreaming. He published more than 70 books on performing arts, histories, plays and screenplays, showing devotion to Iran's pre- and post-Islamic traditions. Born into a Baha'i family in Tehran on 26 December 1938, his minority status contributed to censorship of his work after the 1979 revolution. He began writing plays and film criticism young and published Theatre in Iran at 27. He entered cinema making short films for Kanoon; The Journey (1972) follows an orphaned boy across polluted outskirts of Tehran.
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