Jarman's film The Last of England is a personal commentary by the director about the 80s in England. Jarman visually describes the decline of England during this decade throughout the film. It is a non-narrative film that's very visual.
The film contains lots of quick cuts and fast-paced, almost repetitious, editing at points. One point in particular stands out. This is the scene where a man dances in a dress, while quite a booming, sort of industrial track plays over it. This scene's interesting because the film came out just before music videos and MTV became big.
Saying this, it could be suggested that Jarman was a pioneer of music video editing back in the day. This is because said scene is exactly what you'd expect from an MTV music video. The scene contains lots of quick cuts, zooms and flashes. It's quick cuts are similar to the almost ADHD editing nature of music videos today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSKd9bGeLWM
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