Florent Klockenbring was born in Kinshasa in 1980. He grew up in Ouagadougou, where he discovered cinema by going to the theaters of the city.

As a musician who improvises, he gravitates early on towards the questions of sound compositions in connection with images.

Upon graduation at the Louis-Lumière National Cinema, Photography & Sound Engineering School in 2003, he works as a film sound engineer and sound editor. Since 2012, he collaborates with Natacha Samuel to write and direct films.