Reviews

Welcome to Wonderland is unique in the world of psy-trance documentaries. I've had the privilege of viewing a lot of psy-trance documentaries in recent times. Many are promotional - they are end...

Imagine watching a home movie. It's about your life, it features people you know and captures the essence of what you are about. Only thing is, you're not in the home movie and you have never met...

More than a movie, but not quite a documentary, Welcome to Wonderland is a fictional story based in the real world of Australian dance music, filled with colour, sound and a bit...

Welcome to Wonderland captivates you from its first scene, a lone figure in a beautiful outback setting creating a moment of beauty over a haunting soundtrack. From there, you are taken on an am...

James Short, the Director of Welcome to Wonderland, has spent the past three years filming outdoor dance parties around Victoria (Australia) and independently producing his vision. Working in th...

There's been an increasing number of trance-flavoured DVD's released lately, but this is in a class of its own. Instead of focusing on a particular festival, or on artists aligned to a particular...

I'm reviewing a new DVD called Welcome To Wonderland. Double disc, one a documentary, the other a CD. It really captures the true spirit of what outdoor parties are all about. I've never been to ...

Pack your aerogard, glow sticks, angel wings, ear muffs, fluoro fluff and chuppa chups. We're off to Wonderland….. James Short has travelled a very long way since studying law in Queensland a...

I first met James Short following an introduction from a mutual friend back in early 2003. James was talking about editing footage from dance parties for a film he was creating called, 'W...