Summer 1966; coming out of the artist’s period of life at Graton - a communal venture in the woods north of San Francisco. A film on efforts toward new American religion.

...The title gives Still Life away; a fixed image of a tabletop floral arrangement, ash tray, and table objects; beyond the table, out of focus, is a room backed by windows. There seem to be figures in the far background: perhaps they are the men whose voices we hear on the sound, talking of Ramakrishna and apparently discussing a series of photographs of shrines in India. In the immediate background, just beyond the table, a female figure crosses the screen and returns later. Her costume is rich and elusive.

P. Adams Sitney
Structural Film in Film Culture 47 (Summer 1969)