The filmmakers behind the crafty COVID comedy “New Strains” return with this inspired look at becoming new parents. “Let’s look at this empathy machine we’ve got,” Kallia (Artemis Shaw) says to her infant son Niko (real-life son Niko Kamalakanthan) in “Removal of the Eye,” unboxing a camera and praying that Roger Ebert was right about what it can achieve. Ten years of working on her thesis has been upended by two things – the birth of Niko, by way of her partner Ram (Prashanth Kamalakanthan), who is known to disappear into their closet that he’s turned into a makeshift recording studio for his rap music and unable to hear their son’s cries, and a mention by her friend and fellow grad student Tayarisha (Tayarisha Poe) that their program is looking for visual ethnography as opposed to a paper to submit, meaning her piles of notes about the use of Pagan ritual in Greek mythology should be converted into video content. It’d be difficult not to feel any sympathy to Kaila’s unfortunate position, but she’s not going to find any around her despite having moved into her apartment to live closer to her parents, who live just a floor below and drive her mad with their increasing needs.