 In the late 1980s, he relocated to Hollywood and shot his first mainstream American film with "Torch Song Trilogy", a 1988 comedy-drama starring Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft, and Matthew Broderick.The following year, he shot the James Cameron-helmed science fiction film "The Abyss", a film that helped to pioneer the field of computer-generated visual effects.Salomon used three cameras in watertight housings that were specially designed.