Stoffel Debuysere (1975) is a Belgian researcher and curator active in the fields of cinema and audiovisual arts. Based in Brussels, he has organized numerous film programmes, lectures, performances, and exhibitions in collaboration with a variety of cultural organizations and institutions. He is head programmer for Courtisane, a platform for film and audiovisual arts, and a lecturer in Film Critical Studies at the School of Arts in Ghent, where he obtained a PhD with his research project Figures of Dissent. Cinema of Politics, Politics of Cinema. Since 2021, Debuysere has started a new research project, Echoes of Dissent, which examines the relationship between cinema and politics from a sonic perspective.