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08/06/2026

On the boxes holding the remains of Khoi and San ancestors stolen from their graves, only one set of names was preserved: the names of the people who dug them up.

This year, after more than a century in museum storage, they went home. wrote about it. Available on our SUBSTACK - link in bio 🔗

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29/05/2026

“It is not just a physical return. It is a change in our thinking, a change in our knowledge system.”

The second of a three-part written reportage about what we witnessed at the reburial in Namaqualand is available on our SUBSTACK - link in bio 🔗

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21/05/2026

A wrap on an unforgettable week at Cannes.

Grateful for all conversations, meetings, new friends and the overwhelming response to RE:COLLECTION

Thank you to the for making our participation possible.
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Now it’s time to head home and continue the work.

19/05/2026

This week our team is at Cannes for the Marché for du film looking for partners and funding to finish the film we’re making about the reburial of 63 Khoi and San ancestors in Namaqualand.
While we’re there, we have published the first part of a three-part written reportage about what we witnessed — the coffins, the ceremony, and the long road home for remains that spent over a century in museum storage.

READ piece by Rasmus Bitsch: https://recollectionproject.substack.com/p/uncollecting-the-dead

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Part 1 - The Coffins

19/05/2026

This week our team is at Cannes Marché for du film looking for partners and funding to finish the film we’re making about the reburial of 63 Khoi and San ancestors in Namaqualand.

While we’re there, we have published the first part of a three-part written reportage about what we witnessed — the coffins, the ceremony, and the long road home for remains that spent over a century in museum storage.

READ piece by NOW ON SUBSTACK - link in bio 🔗

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24/04/2026

We are incredibly proud to share that RE:COLLECTION has been selected as one of 11 Spotlighted Projects at Cannes Docs 2026, part of the Marché du Film at the Festival de Cannes. 🔥

The film is currently in early production, and we’ll be presenting the project to the international documentary community this May.

Grateful to the National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa (NFVF) for their support.



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14/04/2026

Leaders from across the Northern Cape and the country attended the historic reburial at Kinderlê in March 2026.

Some performed, like the Noodkaapse Namakoor. Here, Ricardo Thomas, Abraham Katimba, Gentle Klim and Frans De Koker.

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14/04/2026

Leaders from across the Northern Cape and the country attended the historic reburial at Kinderlê in March 2026.

Some performed, like the Noodkaapse Namakoor. Here, Ricardo Thomas, Abraham Katimba, Gentle Klim and Frans De Koker.

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10/04/2026

On the 23rd of March 2026 the remains of 63 Khoi, San, Nama, Griqua and Korana ancestors were laid to rest at Kinderlê in Namaqualand. They had been stored in museums in Cape Town and Glasgow for over 100 years since they were taken from their graves across the Northern Cape in South Africa.
The ancestors could not be returned to where they had been buried, because the scientists who took them did not record this information. They were reduced to specimens to be studied.

While the reburial cannot undo what was done, it is an effort to rehumanise and remember.

re:collection tells the story of why they were taken and the difficult journey of restoration and reburial.

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05/01/2026