I, Cédric Ernoult, was born on March 15th, 1989 in Richmond, Indiana (USA) as the youngest of three siblings in a French family. From 2009 to 2011, I completed a training program in editing at the MJM School of Audiovisual Design in Rennes. From 2011 to 2017, I studied Design, Media and Communication with a focus on film at the FH Dortmund. During my studies, I completed a 6-month internship at ARRI-Munich in lighting, stage, and camera, and subsequently worked as a cameraperson and lighting technician. At FH Dortmund, I focused on directing and made Le grand Jeté, a film featuring soloist Ahmed Soura in the lead role, for my final project before enrolling in a program at the KHM. In the spring of 2022, I completed my studies there with the film Le Métèque.

I believe that the film has artistic and social relevance because deaf people are still too little or not naturally present in today's film and theater world, and when they are represented in society in general, the issue of disability clouds the story. I try to tell a natural story where the two actors are simply deaf. The film must take into account the different perspectives of hearing, deafness, and the perspective of the outsider, extracting sound from the image from time to time and not always translating sign language so that we can let the play of language act on us.