Elementerre with Nzinga Biegueng Mboup and Chérif Tall

Trained at CRAterre in Grenoble, France, the Senegalese engineer Doudou Deme returned to Senegal and founded Elementerre in 2010. Its mission is to develop and democratise sustainable architecture by marketing ecological building materials in a context where concrete, metal, and glass are the materials most commonly adopted for construction.
In Bunt Ban, film director Chérif Tall and producer Nzinga B Mboup give us an intimate insight into Deme’s context, projects, and vision to render biomaterials accessible in order to achieve a low-carbon and more humane built environment. Some of Elementerre’s projects are presented in the film and discussed with some of Deme’s collaborators, showing how they have served as grounds for knowledge production and transmission and a critical engagement in raw earth technology.

Technical collaborators
Rahman Tall (Production Assistant and Sound Engineer), Cheikh Diop (Transport and Logistics), Meysa T. Mboup - MrMeyz (Sound Mixing)
With the additional support of
Hotel le Djoloff, Carrière de Sindia, Worofila, Nicolas Rondet, UrbaSEN, Moussa Diaw and the archival photographs of Patrick Dujarric and the African Futures Institute