Video — Yoko OK

Video Editor Reel featuring footage by Yoko OK and Joe Dobkin.

Yoko OK Editor Reel

I am looking for editing work, social media work, motion graphics and color grading work, and sound editing work. Please email me if you know of any opportunities.

Programs used: Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Photoshop, Da Vinci Resolve, ProTools, iZotope Rx, Procreate for iPad.

I have worked for SF Urban Film Fest, Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, People Power Media, and ABO Comix.

Kikuchi Family Documentary (Part I)

Through a series of interviews with members of my family, I explore the origin story of the Kikuchi family immigration, the impact that COVID-19 has had on us as Asians in America during the pandemic, and our reasons for wanting to make a family “pilgrimage” to the island of Hachijo where our great-grandfather was raised. Interviewees: Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, Jesse Kikuchi Gates, Danny Alyce Satow, Maikiko James and Walter Kikuchi.

Available CC/subtitles: English, Spanish

Cafe Seventy8: A New Era

Cafe Seventy8 is a queer-woman-family-owned sandwich and coffee shop on a sunny corner in the Mission Bernal neighborhood of San Francisco. Watch to learn some history about this sweet little establishment that’s been caffeinating the neighborhood since 2008! And visit if you have the chance!

Available CC/subtitles: English, Spanish, German.

Mia Pixley, Mama’s Got Snacks (music video)

From Margaret In The Wild, released July 2021

Mia Pixley, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and artist who uses her cello, voice, and music performance to study and represent aspects of self and other, community, and the natural world. More info at miapixley.com.

Rollin’ With The Homos

Rollin With The Homos is a monthly queer skating party/drag show on wheels, by the Oakland estuary! Organized by Mama Celeste and Nicki Jizz, it’s been a favorite of many since its inception in Spring 2021.

Includes interviews with Alice Stribling, Andy Tipton, Margaret Belton and a bit about my skate epiphany of Jan 2020.

Dibson T Hoffweiler & Yoko OK, Yes Or No (music video)

My friend Dibs and I wrote a song every week together from June 2020 through Sept 2021. This is one of them, and the video was filmed in pre-vaccine, day-after-the-election pandemic times. From the album People Pleasing, now available on Bandcamp.

Yoko OK, Talking Is Silver (music video)

Filmed in March 2020 partially right before the pandemic hit, partially after. Song by Yoko OK, Sara Lautman and Dibson T Hoffweiler. Video produced by Yoko OK and Jessica Martinez.
Camera: Jade Kikuchi

Adobe Books to Prisoners: An Interview with Nancy Frank

Since 2014, Adobe Books and Arts Cooperative has been supporting California prisoners by offering free books to inmates who write to the bookstore and request books. Programs that send books to prisoners are vital collaborations between bookstores and small organizations or individuals.

Organizations such as Adobe's Books to Prisoners Project (coordinated by Nancy Frank, and inspired by the East Bay's Prisoners Literature Project) are serving an important function by collaborating with existing bookstores to send books to prisoners at no cost to the prisoner.