You’re not supposed to understand it. You’re supposed to feel it. Our Hallucinations series is taking a trip into the Funky Forest, ya’ll!

Welcome to Funky Forest, where plot is optional, logic is irrelevant, and the only rule is: the weirder, the better. A cult favorite of Japan’s experimental film scene, Funky Forest is a sprawling, head-scratching sketch anthology that careens between deadpan comedy, body horror, cosmic nonsense, musical interludes, and pure dream logic. With dozens of characters—like the Guitar Brothers, a dancing colon, and a mysterious alien transmission—it’s a film that feels beamed in from another dimension.

Part Monty Python, part Eraserhead, part pure chaos—it’s not a movie you watch so much as survive.

Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.