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Takumi: A 60,000 Hour Story on the Survival of Human Craft

  • March 2019
  • 54mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    James Miller,

    Dave Bedwood,

    Andy Roberts,

    Clay Jeter

    ...

    Starring

    Nora Atkinson,

    Jon Bruner,

    Martin Ford,

    Shigeo Kiuchi

    ...

    There is a popular theory that it takes at least 10,000 hours of focused practice for a human to become expert in any field. In Japan, there are craftspeople who go far beyond this to reach a special kind of mastery. These people are called Takumi and they devote 60,000 hours to their craft. That's 8 hours a day, 240 days a year, for over 30 years. It's an almost superhuman level of dedication to a life of repetition and no shortcuts. This film asks the question: Will human craft disappear as artificial intelligence reaches beyond our limits?