It’s like the extraordinary shot in “The Shining” where you’re looking up at Jack Nicholson banging on the door, and it’s such an unusual and kind of graphic angle.

She told the court she heard banging and hysterical screaming.

A few worshippers were inside the building at the time of the fire, and have described hearing banging and seeing a window smash, before liquids were thrown inside and lit on fire.

Synagogue board member Benjamin Klein told The Age newspaper that people inside "heard banging on the door and the window, and some liquids came through which were lit".

“I think it’s urgent and important and I liked exploring it in a very different way — you know, as opposed to just banging people over the head with information.”