Mental Hospital at Weyburn An Archaeology of Madness - Part 3

Explore the abandoned Weyburn mental institution where the word psychedelic was coined as artists, performers, former staff and patients resurrect its stigmatized history. This documentary weaves together the on-site art installations and performances of a group of talented artists, actors and musicians with the memories of former staff and patients, archival film and photos. For more information visit www.3rdeyemedia...

[@joeregan3570]

Incredible, only the walls know!

[@sasksunwolf]

Thanks for watching. There are so many untold stories.

[@TheBikerBarn]

his was fantastic and made me very thankful that my Diagnosis came thirty years after they stopped locking Guys like me up.. thanks for posting.

[@prairiepatch]

I very much enjoyed these videos. I always wanted to go inside the hospital now I have an idea of what it was like and what went on there. Like you said the hospital is gone now and they are building houses and condos on the site. The place still has a strange creepiness to it though.

[@MsBluebot]

Really surprised it’s not more haunted like some bad crap went on there so I’m really surprised.

[@matthewdenham7398]

You’ve brought it back to life

[@sasksunwolf]

Thanks for watching and thanks for your comment. Steve

[@janetcarbone4213]

Not the place to bring little kids. What was the point?

[@potcalling]

Well done! I so wish I had been aware of this production and been able to be there in person to experience it. Thank you for making it available on you tube.

[@jm1551701]

All the rooms that all the performers and where the tour seems to follow where in remarkably good shape, did the production team restore a lot of these areas or was it that the building just was kept in remarkable condition ?

[@sasksunwolf]

Thanks for watching. The building wasn’t restored at all by the production. Some of the building was fairly well preserved. The roof had not been maintained so there was structural damage which would have made it hard to save the building. It’s now been torn down.

[@rhondae1484]

Many of the rooms look like the old regional college wing so that may explain some of the upkeep.

[@janetcarbone4213]

I guess maybe this has some value to it but instead of being so deep and introspective and letting your imagination run wild with all kinds of horrors ( of which there were ). Look in the mirror because it was society that caused these massive institutions. It’s what society wanted because 1) they didn’t and still in some cases don’t know how to treat mental illness and 2) didn’t or couldn’t deal with the patients in the community. WORK IN THE FIELD AND THEN YOU CAN PREACH In the meantime enjoy your haunted house experience 🤦🏼‍♀️😒 CUZ ALL IT’S AN ARTIST’S RENDITION

[@elmntree3]

This would have been much better without the actors. They honestly ruined it for me.

[@jwj2xx4]

I would have preferred this split into two videos - one for the acting and the other for the historical background. Combined together, it seems disjointed. Maybe that was the intention, but I would have done it differently.

[@andyhouston625]

This is a documentary of a live multimedia event entitled *The Weyburn Project*. The purpose of the project was for artists - actors, visual artists, video artists, and so forth - to animate the site of the former Weyburn Hospital. Without the actors, and the rest of the artists in this project, there would be no documentary that you are viewing here. To say that the actors "ruined it" for you is to completely misunderstand the project and the documentary of it that you are seeing here.

[@MommyCassReborns]

this is so cringy. these people are terrible actors...and this whole thing is so weird.

[@andyhouston625]

Your comment is cringe-worthy, or whatever is meant by "cringy"... This project features many excellent artists, who did an incredible job of animating the site of this hospital. It's not a conventional work of art, which perhaps seems weird, but it was a very effective way of bringing the past the life.