Connecting queer plants and queer people, Pteridophilia I pushes the boundaries of sexuality and love to incorporate the natural world. Zheng Bo’s work is informed by queer ecology, a practice of stepping away and beyond binaries – for example, human and non-human, or natural and unnatural. Instead, he situates both communities of people and plants as subjects in his films, depicting scenes of physical intimacy, while destabilizing gender categories. The film raises questions about human’s conquest over land, often historically undertaken from the position of white, male, heteronormative power.