‘Quiet Explosions’ to screen a second time

A repeat showing of the film “Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain” is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. today at the Magic Lantern.

The documentary covers traumatic brain injury, PTSD and their treatments. It includes the stories of veterans, athletes and others with CTE, a degenerative brain disease from repetitive brain trauma.

Local football legend and Super Bowl XXVI MVP Mark Rypien is interviwed in the film, which ran as the Spokane International Film Festival’s opening-night feature last Friday. The film includes many images of Spokane and a local treatment for Rypien using transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Producer and director Jerri Sher said the decision to show the film in Spokane a second time came from responses on Friday. “People were asking to have it run again,” Sher said. “They said they had so many people who would want to see it.”

“Quiet Explosions” also explores treatment options that people in the film describe as helping them recover.