People adapted to understand the meaning of cuts, close ups, and at the same time new systems of encoding meaning were experimented with. Its meaning is as confused and antiquated as olde English looks. New technologies like video disk and the remote control enable us to reorder and mix our own viewing experience. Languages all evolve all the time, despite the efforts of the French. A poem is alive.
Life is the simplest form of life, having one property, that of life.
So yes, A-Life is a form of life. It is A-Live. The next great evolutionary leap has been gathering momentum for some time now. Thousands and thousands of years - not that long in the history of evolution. We will see in our lifetimes a massive attention exodus into the mediascape where ideas are bountiful and time and distance are meaningless.