I'm Jordan De Deken — a Belgian filmmaker and videographer based in Seoul. I trained as a director, and these days I work between commercial film and documenting Korea's underground bass scene.
My path hasn't been a straight line. I trained in narrative film at RITCS in Brussels, earning a Master of Arts in film directing (cum laude). My graduation film, Old Born — a mysterious folk-horror short I wrote and directed — went on to play festivals across Europe and Asia. Alongside fiction (short films and series), I spent years shooting advertising for Flemish and international brands and music videos for bands, electronic acts and hardstyle DJs. Then I moved to Korea, and the camera followed the music — clubs, festivals, DJs, the people who keep the scene alive after dark.
What ties it all together is documentation: I want to capture a culture as it happens and build something lasting around it. That's the thread running from my films to INDEKS, my ongoing archive of Seoul nightlife, and to GREENROOM, the platform I'm building to give the crew behind the scene better tools and fairer working conditions.
Film school — RITCS
Master of Arts in film directing at RITCS (Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound) in Brussels — graduated cum laude, with a focus on narrative film directing.
Old Born
Wrote and directed Old Born, a ~20-minute folk-horror short — a mysterious, self-contained story that became my graduation film and the start of a fascination with mythic, atmospheric worlds.
Festivals & awards
Old Born traveled internationally — Brussels Short Film Festival, Busan International Short Film Festival and more — winning Best Student Short Film (both Main and Youth Jury) at Amarcort and a Press Jury Award at BREEDBEELD.
Commercial & music video work
Worked steadily across commercial projects for Flemish and international brands, alongside music videos for bands, electronic musicians and hardstyle DJs — the years that sharpened my craft outside the festival circuit.
Television distribution
A stint at a television distribution company in Brussels.
Move to Korea
Relocated to Seoul in March 2023. Rather than the traditional film pipeline, I built a career around videography, photography and creative production.
Dreamers film club
Spent two years with Yonsei University's film club Dreamers — first as a member, then as team leader — making shorts with Korean and international students.
Into the bass scene
Embedded in Seoul's underground bass community around Club Mushroom — multi-cam set recordings, aftermovies and short-form edits for drum & bass and jungle nights like KORE. This became my signature work.
INDEKS
INDEKS grew out of the YouTube channel I built for Mushroom, on a mission to give local DJs more exposure. When the club closed, I rebranded it into INDEKS — a platform and living archive of Korean nightlife: DJs, festivals, clubs and the creative communities behind them.
GREENROOM
Building GREENROOM — a platform to improve transparency and working conditions across nightlife, connecting DJs, photographers, videographers, lighting and audio crew, organizers and venues. The scene's knowledge, turned into infrastructure.
Today
Working between commercial videography, the bass scene and GREENROOM — and open to clients and collaborators who want film that actually understands the culture it's pointing a camera at.
Building the studio
As the work grows more ambitious and complex, I'm building De Deken out from a solo operation into a full media-production studio — a trusted network of freelancers and in-house professionals able to take on several demanding projects at once.