The Passion of Joan of Arc v1 — LoRA Description
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If you’re drawn to the stark visual beauty and emotional weight of early silent cinema—particularly the haunting minimalism of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)—this LoRA aims to recreate that timeless aesthetic. It focuses on architectural stillness, heavy contrast, and expressionist lighting across simple, reverent compositions.

This version is trained on medium-resolution frames and emphasizes mood, framing, and religious iconography rather than character detail. For face or texture-focused outputs, consider combining with a detail-enhancing LoRA. You may still need to adjust LoRA weights depending on your desired sharpness, especially in close-ups.

All example images were generated using a default Flux development setup—no upscaling, all first-pass outputs. I’ve found that setting CFG to 1 yields the most tonally accurate and compositionally stable results. Higher CFG values may distort lighting balance or introduce unwanted softness.

The style draws inspiration from cinematographer Rudolph Maté and the use of Debrie Parvo cameras with orthochromatic black-and-white film. Lighting is hard and directional, shaped through high-contrast exposure with no diffusion. The set design is minimal, with plaster walls, stone floors, and open spaces used to create emotional pressure through silence and scale. This LoRA replicates the feeling of nitrate-era film grain, medieval austerity, and spiritual solemnity locked in time.

A higher-resolution v2 is currently in development to preserve more fine texture, fabric detail, and facial nuance.

Included below are sample prompts used during training. For best results, use a similar format—grounded, historical, and composed like early nitrate film stills.

Interior medieval courtroom scene with layered spatial depth, German Expressionist lighting casting elongated shadows across stone floor and white plaster walls, minimal set design emphasizes vertical columns and geometric floor tiling, background figures standing with spears create intersecting diagonals, foreground silhouettes obscure part of frame creating claustrophobic tension, natural falloff in shadow details enhances somber tone, shot on Debrie Parvo with wide lens, orthochromatic black-and-white film, Rudolph Maté cinematography

Extreme close-up framed tightly from chin to forehead, moisture on skin and hairline catching subtle specular highlights under directional side lighting, intense facial detail captured with low depth of field and centered composition, blank plaster wall behind eliminates spatial cues, German Expressionist lighting emphasizes sweat sheen and high-contrast shadow pockets along cheeks and under nose, orthochromatic black-and-white film accentuates midtone texture and highlight bloom, shot on Debrie Parvo with wide lens, Rudolph Maté cinematography, Dreyer-style focus on raw human emotion through minimal context and overwhelming facial scale.