I am really excited to announce Thelmarama in residence at the Crocker Art Museum in 2026. Thelmarama Movie Club is a project created by @jordmata and I. This idea came from wanting to host film screenings that involved our tabby, Thelma. Thelma is a cinephile and she makes the final choice for each screening.
During the Crocker Art Museum Cinema Club residency, Thelmarama will be hosting six individual screenings throughout the year and Thelma will be choosing films based on pieces in the Crocker’s permanent collection.
We hope you can join us for our first screening on Saturday, January 17th 2026. We are incredibly grateful for this opportunity from our favorite museum in our favorite town. Special thanks to Lily and the education team at the Crocker. Thank you to the folks who have shown up and supported us the last couple years. See ya there!
@thelmapicksflicks
Tonight was our third screening with the @crockerart cinema club residency and the theme was ritual and repetition. We talked about some pieces in the Crocker’s permanent collection and three films that connect to that theme. We’re so grateful to have worked with @taohuatea for a pre-screening tea ceremony. Thelma had her own tea ceremony with Olive and Ziru where she revealed her choice of All That Jazz 🎶 Thanks again for everyone who took the time to help and come out!
Join Thelmarama for our third screening with the Crocker Cinema Club on Thursday May 7 at 6 PM. For this screening we are exploring themes of ritual and repetition within the Crocker Art Museum’s collection @crockerart
Thelma’s choices are All That Jazz (1979) dir. by Bob Fosse, Perfect Days (2023) dir. by Wim Wenders and Match Factory Girl (1990) dir. by Aki Kaurrismäki. And as always, Thelma picks one (but we encourage you to watch the other choices!)
Please come at 6 PM to enjoy a pre-screening tea ceremony presented by Taohua Tea @taohuatea 🍵 Ziru @ziru.mo and Olive @ollolsen of Taohua will be hosting a gongfu (工夫茶) tea ceremony, which is a traditional and ritualistic way to serve tea in East Asia.
Tickets are available at the Crocker or online on the Crocker Art Museum’s website 🎟️
April, come she will. When streams are ripe and swelled with rain.
Thank you @trashdaypress for including me in the 2026 calendar! happy April, happy April fools, happy Easter
Thelma picked First Cow for Touching Grass, our second screening at the Crocker Cinema Club residency. We hope you enjoyed Thelma’s choice and the screening of Oaks, Heritage Trees of the Sacramento Valley presented by Willow Germs, California Revealed, and Yolo County Archives. We genuinely appreciate everyone who makes time to enjoy these films with us. Next Thelmarama date and theme will be announced soon!~
As a part of the second installment of Thelmarama Cinema Club (@thelmapicksflicks ) at the Crocker Art Museum (@crockerart ) this Thursday, archivist Willow Germs (@dictabelts ) will be presenting a pre-screening pick: Oaks, Heritage Trees of the Sacramento Valley (17 min, 1975) from the Yolo County Archives (@yolocountylibrary ) which was digitized through California Revealed (@californiarevealed )
Following this archival pre-screening, Thelma will pick a feature length film for the audience to watch. You won’t know what she chooses until the day of. Each potential choice explores themes of nature and human interaction within the Crocker Art Museum’s permanent collection. Thelma’s choices are First Cow (2019) dir. by Kelly Reichardt, Days of Heaven (1978) dir. by Terrence Malick, and Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) dir. by Werner Herzog.
The screening is on Thursday, March 5 at 6 PM.
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‘Oaks, Heritage Trees of the Sacramento Valley’ was created by the Sacramento County Office of Education and digitized by California Revealed. California Revealed is supported in part by funding from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act.
🌱 Touch grass with us during our second Crocker Cinema Club (@crockerart ) screening on Thursday, March 5 at 6 PM.
Three movies exploring themes of nature and human interaction within the Crocker Art Museum’s permanent collection.
Thelmarama will be joined by local conservation archivist Willow Germs (@dictabelts ) for a pre-show screening 🎞️ of Oaks, Heritage Trees of Sacramento Valley (@californiarevealed ). 🎥 Thelma’s choices are First Cow (2019) dir. by Kelly Reichardt, Days of Heaven (1978) dir. by Terrence Malick, and Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) dir. by Werner Herzog.
You won’t know what she chooses until the day of.
Buy tickets at the link in our bio! Meow meow meow 🌳🌿🌲
Thank you so much for coming to our first Thelmarama screening at the Crocker Art Museum! Thelma chose What’s Up, Doc? 🥕 and we hope you enjoyed watching it with us. Here’s a short film of Thelma playing hooky at the Crocker. We’ll see you at our next screening on March 5 @ 6 PM (thank you Matt, Virginia, Andy, and Rommel for your help!!)
ALERT!!! 🙀 THELMA’S OPTIONS FOR JAN 17 AT THE CROCKER ARE IN!!!!!!!!
What’s Up, Doc? (1972) Dir. Peter Bogdanovic. Starring Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’Neal
Love Streams (1984) Dir. John Cassavetes. Starring John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands
Woman in the Dunes (1964) Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara. Starring Eiji Okada and Kyōko Kishida
THELMA CHOOSES!! BE THERE OR BE SQUARE ▪️
